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Article: LESSONS FROM THE ABORIGINES.(the Aboriginies of Australia)
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- Calliope
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- September 1, 1999
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What was it really like to live completely on wild foods the way our hominid ancestors did for millions of years? Can modern-day hunter-gatherers offer useful clues about how ancient proto-humans (first humans) behaved and survived in the distant past?
To find the answers to these questions, scholars called ethnoarchaeologists have lived with and studied groups of modern-day hunter-gatherers in remote areas such as the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, the tropics of the northern Philippine Islands, the Alaskan Arctic, and the Central and Western deserts of Australia.
All recent hunter-gatherers are modern human beings (Homo sapiens) whose cultures are ...