ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Sun, age and test location affect spatial orientation in human foragers in rainforests.
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- Navigational Experience and the Preservation of Spatial Abilities into Old Age Among a Tropical Forager-Farmer Population.Topics in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Girls in early childhood increase food returns of nursing women during subsistence activities of the BaYaka in the Republic of Congo.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Contrasting parental roles shape sex differences in poison frog space use but not navigational performance.eLife · 2022Article
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- Managing the Built Environment for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention With Maharishi Vastu Architecture: A Review.Global advances in health and medicine · 2022Article
- Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
- Cultural Change Reduces Gender Differences in Mobility and Spatial Ability among Seminomadic Pastoralist-Forager Children in Northern Namibia.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The ability to know the direction of food sources is important for the foraging success of hunter-gatherers, especially in rainforests where dense vegetation limits visual detection distances. Besides sex and age, prior experience with the environment and the use of environmental cues are known to influence orientation abilities of humans. Among environmental cues, the position of the sun in the sky is important for orientation of diurnal animal species. However, whether or to what extent humans use the sun is largely unknown. Here, we investigated orientation abilities of the Mbendjele BaYaka people in the Republic of Congo, by conducting pointing tests (N
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