Archaeological data alone can’t always help to answer researchers’ questions: multiple lines of evidence are needed.
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
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Shepherding livestock may be more effective protection than killing predators.
Men in rural China spend more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.
Breed matters. But dogs are mostly what we make of them, and they repay the effort we put into their behaviour tenfold.
Pastoral communities should be included in conservation initiatives – but the ecology of pastoral lands has long been misunderstood.
Mineral-rich Mongolia is experiencing a mining boom, but its growth is creating distrust and conflict with herder communities.
Pastoralism is a central part of many Africans’ identity. But how and when did this way of life get started on the continent? Ancient DNA can reveal how herding populations spread.
What do traditional Maasai people use mobile phones for?
Herding behaviour is leading to excessive borrowing, further fuelling apartment prices, particularly in Sydney.
New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.
Principales colaboradores
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Researcher in Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor, Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Graduate Teaching Assistant in Biology, University of Utah
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Professor of Economics, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
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Associate Professor of Geography, Virginia Tech
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
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Research Fellow, Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer in Anthropology, University of British Columbia
