Forager Child Studies

An interdisciplinary research collaborative investigating the pasts, presents, and futures of forager children's lives.

[Forager Child Studies @ForagerChildren]

Congratulations to FCS Director Sheina Lew-Levy for being awarded a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize!

[The Leverhulme Trust @LeverhulmeTrust]

@MKFlugge @AjaLMurray @CManningPhD @mmuthukrishna @sheinalew

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

Excited to share that I've been awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant! Our team will be investigating how children's independent peer cultures evolve, and what they contribute to community adaptation.

[G. Deniz Salali @DenizSalali]

Our new paper on the composition of hunter-gatherer caregivers are out! Children and unrelated people together contribute the most! https://t.co/qdHSnjIVDN

[G. Deniz Salali @DenizSalali]

Join in for my talk on hunter-gatherer childhoods and global perspectives on child development next Tuesday as part of @radicalanthro seminars. Free on Zoom or in person @UCLanthropology

[Jing Xu 许晶@jing-xu.bsky.social @XuJing_Sea]

New book cover: one of my favorite photos from Arthur Wolf’s fieldnotes archive. It expresses central themes of my book: mutual gaze between kids and the anthropologist/photographer; children playing by themselves, without adult supervision, and in a somewhat forbidden place.

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

Please apply and share!

[G. Deniz Salali @DenizSalali]

Interested in hunter-gatherer studies, cultural evolution and child development and would like to pursue a PhD? UCL offers PhD funding regardless of your country. If you have a relevant project proposal drop me an email.

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

The journal Hunter-Gatherer Research @ISHGR5 @LivUniPress is looking for a couple of articles to complete an issue. Our time to decision is very short, and we'd love you to contribute! Please shoot me a message if you have any questions!!

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

🚨📜 Our new paper is out! @jadasenka, @DudaRomain, Ghislain Loubelo, Jerome Lewis & I examine the harms and benefits of a school system designed for BaYaka children.

https://t.co/If0lWln8EC (English)

https://t.co/QCfes5KbwR (French)

https://t.co/4fBYdJIn5g (by @DudaRomain)

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

Cooperation and partner choice among Agta hunter-gatherer children: "Children preferentially shared with close kin (especially siblings), although older children increasingly shared with less-related individuals." https://t.co/SMplaBQVyQ

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

🧵 At @ISHGR5, we're discussing unequal and extractive research practices within hunter-gatherer studies. As a step (of many) towards correcting course, the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research is launching the Community Companion Initiative.

Sign up here:

https://t.co/nR6Uzvy5zj

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

Friends, I'm really thrilled that we have published this review paper on peer learning, with implications for cultural evolution. One of our coolest findings is that peer learning is pervasive, even in societies with strong norms for vertical transmission

https://t.co/p2NQ2ilV2D

[EHBEA @EHBEA1]

📢📢We're very pleased to announce our 2023 New Investigator Award goes to the fantastic @sheinalew! Watch out for her at @ehbea2023 and in the meantime check out her impressive work on social learning among forager children here: https://t.co/isK3R0FUIW 👏👏👏

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

I'm truly thrilled that our (@Marc_M_Andersen @ARCHAEOfelix, others) work is finally ready to share!

Over the past few years, we've been building this gorgeous database of kids play objects from around the world!

https://t.co/vNkpdFU8as

[Abbey Page @abbeyepage]

📢📢 Brief peek out of maternity leave to promote a new paper which explores diversity in childcare networks in the Agta

https://t.co/sAjhOb29EY

Part of a wonderful social issue on women's cooperation in #PhilTransB edited by @sfox12 @jbsilk1 @bascelza and Karen Kramer

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

Really thrilled that our paper on hunter-gatherer kids' toys and tools is out! This is a sneak peak at a bigger project we are just about to launch. Stay tuned! @ForagerChildren

[Ilaria Pretelli @IlariaPretelli]

Gonna celebrate the publishing of our "Foraging Complexity and the Evolution of Childhood" on Science Advances with a documentary style explanatory thread! @sheinalew @err_ring @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/Yo1MWdZo3G

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

Today’s new @ForagerChildren paper, led by @IlariaPretelli and @err_ring, is a culmination of our group’s ongoing comparative research on the ontogeny of learning from the youngest years through to adolescents in hunter-gatherer communities. Some back story! 1/8

[Ilaria Pretelli @IlariaPretelli]

I’m very excited to announce that my FIRST first author paper is now out on EHS @Journal_EHS #OpenAccess https://t.co/cmMH5BdA78

[Durham Psychology @DurhamPsych]

Welcome to @sheinalew who is joining @Dur_DevPsy in September! Using methods from #anthropology and #psychology, @sheinalew conducts research in hunter-gatherer societies to understand the cultural diversity and evolution of social learning in childhood https://t.co/rUmbD7uY5G