Comparative studies of Hunter-Gatherer Cultures of Europe and North America. The issue of cultural adaptation
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cultural adaptation, hunter gatherers, late Pleistocene, HoloceneAbstract
This paper presents the results of a Polish-American research project lasting ten years comparing the widely separated hunting gathering societies that experienced similar changing environments in the Old and New World during the final Pleistocene and the early Holocene times. The study intended to compare the technological and economic histories of this societies living in the same time on the North European plain and the North Central United States. Over the period of time in question, they experienced the same changes of climate and environment. The results of the project permit us to say that the hunter gatherers adaptation process was often only slightly, and over time hardly at all dependent on environmental changes.
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