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Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review (2021)
Journal Article

Theoretical engagement and methodological innovations geared towards identifying the presence and activities of children in archaeological contexts has increased in pace over the last decade. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature... Read More about Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review.

BaYaka adolescent boys nominate accessible adult men as preferred spear hunting models (2021)
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Humans are selective social learners. In a cultural landscape with many potential models, learners must balance the cost associated with learning from successful models with learning from accessible ones. Using structured interviews, we investigate t... Read More about BaYaka adolescent boys nominate accessible adult men as preferred spear hunting models.

There and back again: The biosocial dynamics of returning from the field (2021)
Journal Article

Background Leaving “home” to pursue fieldwork is a necessity but also a rite of passage for many biological anthropology/human biology scholars. Field-based scientists prepare for the potential changes to activity patterns, sleep schedules, social i... Read More about There and back again: The biosocial dynamics of returning from the field.

How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation (2021)
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For most of our species’ history, humans have lived in relatively small subsistence communities, often called small-scale societies. While these groups lack centralized institutions, they can and often do maintain large-scale cooperation. Here, we ex... Read More about How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation.

Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher-farmer children (2021)
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Tool innovation has played a crucial role in human adaptation. Yet, this capacity seems to arise late in development. Before 8 years of age, many children struggle to solve the hook task, a common measure of tool innovation that requires modification... Read More about Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher-farmer children.

Gender differences in BaYaka forager sleep-wake patterns in forest and village contexts (2021)
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Sleep studies in small-scale subsistence societies have broadened our understanding of cross-cultural sleep patterns, revealing the flexibility of human sleep. We examined sleep biology among BaYaka foragers from the Republic of Congo who move betwee... Read More about Gender differences in BaYaka forager sleep-wake patterns in forest and village contexts.

Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles (2021)
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Children and mothers’ cortisol production in response to family psychosocial conditions, including parenting demands, family resource availability and parental conflict, has been extensively studied in the United States and Europe. Less is known abou... Read More about Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles.

The Life History of Learning Subsistence Skills among Hadza and BaYaka Foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo (2021)
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Aspects of human life history and cognition, such as our long childhoods and extensive use of teaching, theoretically evolved to facilitate the acquisition of complex tasks. The present paper empirically examines the relationship between subsistence... Read More about The Life History of Learning Subsistence Skills among Hadza and BaYaka Foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo.

Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference (2021)
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Preferences for pink and blue were tested in children aged 4–11 years in three small-scale societies: Shipibo villages in the Peruvian Amazon, kastom villages in the highlands of Tanna Island, Vanuatu, and BaYaka foragers in the northern Republic of... Read More about Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference.

Demonstrating the utility of Egocentric Relational Event Modelling using focal follow data from Congolese BaYaka children and adolescents engaging in work and play (2021)
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Temporal aspects of child and adolescent time allocation in diverse cultural settings have been difficult to model using conventional statistical techniques. A new statistical approach, Egocentric Relational Event Modelling (EREM), allows for the sim... Read More about Demonstrating the utility of Egocentric Relational Event Modelling using focal follow data from Congolese BaYaka children and adolescents engaging in work and play.