Population Structure, Infant Transport, and Infanticide among Pleistocene and Modern Hunter-Gatherers
- 1 October 1974
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Anthropological Research
- Vol. 30 (3) , 191-198
- https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.30.3.3629843
Abstract
It has been suggested recently that systematic infanticide was necessary and widespread among Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. Although there is ethnographic evidence which supports that position, a sizable body of relevant negative evidence has received little attention. When all the evidence currently available is examined, it suggests strongly that systematic infanticide was atypical among Pleistocene hunter-gatherers, just as its practice among modern Eskimos and Aboriginal Australians is atypical of present-day human populations.Keywords
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