Forager Child Studies
@ForagerChildren
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An interdisciplinary research collaborative investigating the pasts, presents, and futures of forager children's lives.
Joined June 2019
Excited to share that our @BBSJournal target article โ "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" โ is online & open for commentary! In it, @sheinalew & I argue that children's peer cultures play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation. https://t.co/Xe71vOrcT0
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Congratulations to FCS Director Sheina Lew-Levy for being awarded a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize!
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Excited to share that I've been awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant! Our team will be investigating how children's independent peer cultures evolve, and what they contribute to community adaptation.
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Our new paper on the composition of hunter-gatherer caregivers are out! Children and unrelated people together contribute the most! https://t.co/qdHSnjIVDN
๐ฃ PUBLISHED ๐ฃ โHunterโGatherer children's close-proximity networks: Similarities and differences with cooperative and communal breeding systemsโ in @Journal_EHS by Nikhil Chaudhary et al. ๐ Read more here: https://t.co/dxAULhLH35 ๐ธ Rodolph Schlaepfer and Sylvain Viguier
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Join in for my talk on hunter-gatherer childhoods and global perspectives on child development next Tuesday as part of @radicalanthro seminars. Free on Zoom or in person @UCLanthropology
Next Tues Feb 6, 6:30pm we welcome @DenizSalali on 'Raising Tomorrow: BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods and Global Perspectives on Child Development' FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM https://t.co/h6aqkW3NhZ
#huntergatherers #BaYaka #childcare #sociallearning
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New book cover: one of my favorite photos from Arthur Wolfโs fieldnotes archive. It expresses central themes of my book: mutual gaze between kids and the anthropologist/photographer; children playing by themselves, without adult supervision, and in a somewhat forbidden place.
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Interested in hunter-gatherer studies, cultural evolution and child development and would like to pursue a PhD? UCL offers PhD funding regardless of your country. If you have a relevant project proposal drop me an email.
Announcing our new scholarship scheme! ๐ The UCL Research Excellence Scholarships (RES) is offering up to 40 scholarships to exceptional applicants from any country to pursue MPhil and PhDs at UCL! Applications close on Friday 12 Jan - apply now!๐ https://t.co/ZqR3kKvD9M
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The journal Hunter-Gatherer Research @ISHGR5 @LivUniPress is looking for a couple of articles to complete an issue. Our time to decision is very short, and we'd love you to contribute! Please shoot me a message if you have any questions!!
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A little snippet of children's lives in the ethnographic record: here's Malinowski describing "the children's republic" in Melanesia โ "If the children make up their minds to do a certain thing... the grown-ups & even the chief himself... will not be able to stop them".
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๐จ๐ Our new paper is out! @jadasenka, @DudaRomain, Ghislain Loubelo, Jerome Lewis & I examine the harms and benefits of a school system designed for BaYaka children. https://t.co/If0lWln8EC (English) https://t.co/QCfes5KbwR (French) https://t.co/4fBYdJIn5g (by @DudaRomain)
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A nearly 6,000 year old piece of chewing gum, found in Scandinavia, perfectly preserved the DNA of its chewer. She was a young, hunter-gatherer girl, with dark skin, brown hair & blue eyes, who had recently eaten a meal of hazelnuts & duck. Archaeology is amazing.
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Cooperation and partner choice among Agta hunter-gatherer children: "Children preferentially shared with close kin (especially siblings), although older children increasingly shared with less-related individuals."
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Examining development is essential for a full understanding of behaviour, including how individuals acquire traits and how adaptive evolutionary forces shape these processes. The present study...
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๐งต At @ISHGR5, we're discussing unequal and extractive research practices within hunter-gatherer studies. As a step (of many) towards correcting course, the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research is launching the Community Companion Initiative. Sign up here: https://t.co/nR6Uzvy5zj
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The International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research recognizes that unequal and extractive research practices within our discipline have marginalized scholars from many of the countries studied....
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Friends, I'm really thrilled that we have published this review paper on peer learning, with implications for cultural evolution. One of our coolest findings is that peer learning is pervasive, even in societies with strong norms for vertical transmission https://t.co/p2NQ2ilV2D
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In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the...
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๐ข๐ขWe're very pleased to announce our 2023 New Investigator Award goes to the fantastic @sheinalew! Watch out for her at @ehbea2023 and in the meantime check out her impressive work on social learning among forager children here: https://t.co/isK3R0FUIW ๐๐๐
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I'm truly thrilled that our (@Marc_M_Andersen @ARCHAEOfelix, others) work is finally ready to share! Over the past few years, we've been building this gorgeous database of kids play objects from around the world! https://t.co/vNkpdFU8as
play-object-play.au.dk
A database of toys and tools made for and/or used by children from subsistence societies.
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๐ข๐ข Brief peek out of maternity leave to promote a new paper which explores diversity in childcare networks in the Agta https://t.co/sAjhOb29EY Part of a wonderful social issue on women's cooperation in #PhilTransB edited by @sfox12 @jbsilk1 @bascelza and Karen Kramer
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Abstract. Women cooperate over multiple domains and while research from western contexts portrays women's networks as limited in size and breadth, women re
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Really thrilled that our paper on hunter-gatherer kids' toys and tools is out! This is a sneak peak at a bigger project we are just about to launch. Stay tuned! @ForagerChildren
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