20 Feb 2017

Migliano et al. developed a technology to map proximity networks in hunter-gatherers, and show that their social networks exhibit increased efficiency for information exchange due to a few strong ‘friendship’ ties connecting unrelated families. Such friendships are more important than family ties in predicting knowledge sharing. See Migliano et al. 1, 0043 (2017).

05 Oct 2015

High global efficiency of social networks is important to multiple aspects of human cumulative culture, including the spread of social norms and diffusion of technological innovations, among others. Efficient hunter-gatherer networks depend on the existence of a few close friends linking households and enabling the flow of information among them...

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13 Jul 2015

The members of Resilience Project describe their work and show images of their fieldwork in a meeting organised in Cornwall. 

11 May 2015

The social organization of mobile hunter-gatherers has several derived features, including low within-camp relatedness and fluid meta-groups. We present an agent-based model suggesting that, even if all individuals in a community seek to live with as many kin as possible, within-camp relatedness is reduced if men and women have equal influence in selecting camp members. Our results suggest that pair-bonding and increased sex egalitarianism in human evolutionary history may have had a transformative effect on human social organization.

09 Apr 2014

The Agta from Diago are incredible divers. This video produced by Rodolph Schlaepfer shows the Agta in their everyday activity.

07 Jun 2016

Rituals, Music and oral traditions are at the centre of hunter-gatherers cultural resilience. Great similarities in vocal polyphonic singing styles between African Pygmies and similar taboos around reproduction and food suggest ancient relationships and long-term survival of these cultural traits.

10 May 2015

Children in hunter-gatherer groups learn important life skills from other children and adults. This video is about social learning in Agta Children and was shown in a conference, "Children Seen and Heard Across the Globe" (Leiden, Netherlands), in 2015.

28 May 2023

The local school in Dicotcotan has many Agta students. Agta Aid and COsEL are working to make this school and its teaching methodology more adequate to the Agta needs and culture. Teachers, Schools and Children in England and Brazil are also involved in this project. This video is about how kids are commited and amazing journey of books, from England to the Philippines.