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Present-day hunter-gatherer societies live a lifestyle more closely related to Mesolithic lifestyles over 12,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer diets also consist of a variety of meat, plant, and fruit items. In the context of Mesolithic Europe, the Stone Age ancestors of modern Europeans known as Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHG) ate a variety of food items.

In this documentary which was contributed to by myself and The Beaker Lady, Dan Davis explores the dietary changes across time in prehistoric Europe. Regarding the Mesolithic diet of European hunter-gatherers, he notes:

-The dietary variety included various shellfish and fish species. Mesolithic people gathered, cooked, and ate species like oysters, periwinkles, mussels, limpets, whelks, cockles, and scallops. The consumption of shellfish and other seafood provided excellent sources of protein as well as other vital nutrients like various fats and micronutrients like iron, zinc, magnesium, B vitamins, and vitamins E and C.

-Mesolithic Western Hunter-Gatherers also consumed terrestrial animals. Evidence suggests they ate boar, elk, red deer, oryx, and small game, as well as reindeer in Northern Swedish regions. The diet was not solely reliant on animal sources; they also gathered plant foods. Sites like Star Car in England revealed that they lived in environments rich with plants like bull rushes, fruit species like blackberries, pears, apples, raspberries, and crowberries.

-Hazelnuts were a significant part of their diet, evidenced by intensive gathering and processing practices. Sites such as the Howick Home in northern England show clear evidence for intensive seasonal gathering and preparation at special hazelnut processing sites. Hazelnuts were roasted to enhance flavour and shelf life, indicating their importance as a food resource.

Watch The Delicious Diets of Prehistoric Europe (Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age).

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8,000 years ago, in the Danube’s Iron Gates Gorge, lived a remarkable society of fisher-foragers who sculpted strange statues of human-fish hybrids.

But were they Mesolithic hunter-gatherers or Neolithic farmers... or something unique?

This is the amazing story of the enigmatic fish people of Lepenski Vir.

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History fans when someone 5,000 years ago made a ritual object.

Artistic Reconstruction of a man of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo Culture (offshoot of eastern Corded Ware Culture).

Cool fact, they had carved bone pins that looked similar to Yamnaya ones. I wanted to showcase that along with ornaments made from bear teeth and a bear claw since related artifacts have been found at their sites (we just do not know for sure how they wore them). For pigmentation, there were many Fatyanovo who had similar skin, hair and eye color to Yamnaya (as did many early CWC) so I presented that here.

So what was the Fatyanovo economy like? It differed a bit from the Yamnaya as it was not a fully nomadic pastoralist culture.

Their forest environment largely affected their economy. While archeologists consider cattle herding to be the most significant part of their economy, evidence of pigs was seen in several sites (especially in earlier sites). This is an important fact as domestic pigs suggested a more settled lifestyle.

It is believed they also practiced some agriculture. Later, their descendants would return to the steppe and become more mobile as they adapted to the environment. Soon I will be posting a new artistic reconstruction of a Fatyanovo man whose skull as featured in the same paper I got the Yamnaya skull from for my last artistic reconstruction.

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An interesting new linguistic paper ("Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian" by Axel I. Palmér) proposes the joining of the Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Baltic-Slavic into a branch called Indo-Slavic. In this hypothesis, Fatyanovo may be Indo-Slavic, and Abashevo (the ancestor of Sintashta and Srubnaya) in turn would be Proto-Indo-Iranian. I plan on making a future post discussing this hypothesis. The pdf is open access and free to download (only the printed version has a cost): https://brill.com/display/title/72253?srsltid=AfmBOopo6saxCywro72ra102yA9CkQu_fMikU4ztWzvA-11oTgnaL21f