Humans have been living at extreme altitudes for a very long time. However, only a very small percentage of the planet’s population inhabit such places. Today, the largest communities of high-altitude dwellers reside on the Tibetan Plateau. These mountainous people are speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages which came to be spoken as a result of relatively…
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The Alvastra pile-dwelling: Farmer-Hunter interactions in Early Middle Neolithic Scandinavia
In 3100 BC, hundreds of years before the first Indo-Europeans would set foot in Scandinavia, two very different groups of people had been maintaining highly contrasting ways of life for at least 400 years. Despite often living in very close proximity to each other. Everything ranging from their spiritualism, to their burials and even diets…