There were two interesting reports on hunter-gatherers in the popular press this week:
1) As reported in the NY Times, it appears that selective harvesting of prime-aged animals by humans can have a strong impact on some life-history and phenotypic traits of certain animal species. I haven't read the paper yet, so I'm not sure whether they clearly look at small-scale hunting as distinct from industrialized harvesting, but if you're interested, you can look at the actual paper this report's based on as a freely downloadable pdf.
2) Science Daily reports on a recent paper by M. Vaquero in the Journal of Archaeological Science in which he attempts to establish the temporal relationship between Middle Paleolithic artifacts at the site of the Abric Romani (Spain), without drawing directly on ethnographic analogy.
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