Advanced Hunting & Gathering
Societies primarily sustained by foraging and hunting, utilizing a diverse composite toolkit, advanced tracking, and deep ecological knowledge.
Core metadata
- ID: advanced_hunting_gathering
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -10000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: structurally_validated
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Animal Tracking & Signs (animal_tracking_signs)
- Atlatl (atlatl)
- Basic Shelter (basic_shelter)
- Hafted Stone-Point Spears (composite_tools)
Dependents
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology (Science, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node
Locator: Abstract: multiple lines of evidence indicate approximately 500,000-year-old Kathu Pan 1 stone points functioned as hafted spear tips.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 4
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 4
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hafted Stone-Point Spears (composite_tools) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Composite Tools provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Animal Tracking & Signs (animal_tracking_signs) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Animal Tracking & Signs provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Basic Shelter (basic_shelter) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Basic Shelter is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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| Atlatl (atlatl) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Atlatl provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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