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The hunter-gatherers of the middle stone age lived as semi-nomads, building relatively small huts as dwellings. They usually stay at the same place for one…
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Hunter-gatherers get all their food from the wild. Hunting provides only a small part of the diet, most of the food is gathered. Hazelnuts form a stable and…
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Master flintknapper Morten Kutschera shows the techniques to make specialized tools out of flint. Hitting a flint stone with a hammer stone in exactly the right…
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Hunting is done in small groups, in this case led by camp elder Werner Pfeifer. Different kinds of animals are hunted with specialized weapons that are…
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Hunter-gatherers operate from different camps that are spread out over a large territory. Usually, there's one basecamp where the whole community comes…
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The skin of the animal is an important resource, for it provides leather for clothes or furs for when it gets cold. Doctor in prehistoric tanning Theresa Kamper…
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Nothing of the animal has to go to waste. The guts for instance can be used to make very strong thread. Many of today's hunter-gatherer societies don't have a…
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Next to hunting and gathering, fishing provides an important part of the diet. The oldest canoe ever found was dug out from a single log. It was found in Pesse…
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There is no known example in the world of a culture that did not develop music. It's a highly important social phenomenon that brings a clan together and…