New study shows hunter-gatherer metal workers in prehistoric Anatolia doing copper working 9,000 years ago.

"Excavations at Gre Filla in Diyarbakir, uncovered architectural structures, copper artifacts, and vitrified materials that point to early pyrometallurgical activities.

Until now, the earliest known evidence of smelting dated to approximately 5,000 B.C. at Yumuktepe in Anatolia [and in the Balkans too actually, maybe even earlier] However, Gre Filla’s findings—dated to around 8,000 B.C.—could shift this paradigm dramatically."

Article here: https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-anatolias-last-hunter-gatherers-pioneered-copper-metallurgy-9000-years-ago-133075/

Paper (paywalled): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25000835

The Pitted Ware culture (c. 3500 BC - 2300 BC) of Southern Scandinavia relied heavily on seals as a resource.

These animals provided skins, meat, blood, and perhaps most precious of all, blubber.

Their characteristic pottery reveals they consumed this precious fat. Baltic hunter gatherers seem to have stored seal fat, mixed with cranberry or lingonberry which contain chemicals that would have helped stop the meat/fat from spoiling. They also seem to have made a kind of blood porridge or blood cake, with blood mixed with wild grains.

Artwork: "Stone Age Seal Hunters" by Måns Sjöberg

If you look up stuff like "ancestral diet" and "what did ancient humans eat?" and stuff like that you will find videos from both "carnivore diet" advocates and "vegan / plant based diet" advocates asserting that pre-agricultural people were entirely carnivorous or ate mostly plants.

I watched this one on a carnivore channel cos it had a mesolithic European on the thumbnail. But I had to drop a comment because unfortunately it was saying stuff that was just wrong, implying we're more carnivorous than lions and all plants are toxic.

People will use this appeal to nature and/or tradition stuff to support their dietary beliefs but they don't need to. You're not eating like a mesolithic man anyway if you're eating 15 beef steaks a week and 1000 chicken eggs a year.

Personally, I only eat mammoth, woolly rhino, and Victoria sponge cake.

"Dogu with palms pressed together"

Late Jōmon clay statue, Kazahari I, Aomori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, c. 1500 – 1000 BC

She was painted red originally.