Daily Life in a Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Camp | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:30 The Upper Paleolithic Setting
00:13:44 Hunting, Gathering, and Food
00:25:01 Clothing and Personal Adornments
00:30:39 Social Structure and Community
00:37:56 Arts, Rituals, and Spiritual Life
00:45:25 Challenges and Resilience
00:51:37 Thoughts and Conclusion

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Sources and Further Reading:

García-Díez, M. & Vaquero, M. (2015). Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite. PLOS ONE.

Revedin, A. et al. (2010). Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Nadel, D. & Werker, E. (1999). The oldest ever brush hut plant remains from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel (19 ka BP). Antiquity 73: 755–764.

Murphree, W. et al. (2025). Fire use during the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from the Epigravettian at Korman’ 9, Ukraine. Geoarchaeology.

Chlachula, D. et al. (2025). Tracking the Hunter: A Study of the Personal Gear of a Gravettian Hunter-Gatherer from Milovice IV. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Conard, N. J., Malina, M. & Münzel, S. (2009). New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany. Nature 460: 737–740.

Soffer, O., Adovasio, J. M. & Hyland, D. C. (2000). The “Venus” Figurines: Textiles, Basketry, Gender and Status in the Upper Paleolithic. Current Anthropology 41(4): 511–537.

Pettitt, P. (2011). The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial. Routledge.

Germonpré, M., Sablin, M. V. et al. (2012). Palaeolithic dog skulls at the Gravettian Předmostí site, Czech Republic. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(1): 184–202.

Gamble, C. (1999). The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe. Cambridge University Press.

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