hunter-gatherer
noun
hunt·er-gath·er·er
ˈhən-tər-ˈga-t͟hər-ər 
: a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
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Over a millennium ago, an ancient society of hunter-gatherers in Argentina’s Patagonia region buried one of its members in a small cemetery.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
Human civilization, the proposal explained, had begun with hunter-gatherers, passed through the agrarian and industrial stages, and was fast approaching the end of the information age.
—Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says Scientists believe this extinct fox species may have been domesticated 1,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
But the latest research suggests that the hunter-gatherers' DNA was almost entirely erased.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
These immigrant farmers likely mixed with the Indigenous hunter-gatherer population.
—Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Scientists already understood that most Indians are descended from three groups: ancient Iranian farmers, Eurasian steppe herders and South Asian hunter-gatherers.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
They were colonized and forced off their land by the Japanese, made to give up their lifestyle as hunter-gatherers and forbidden from speaking their language and practicing their religion.
—Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
Our guide was an Inuvialuit-Gwich'in hunter-gatherer and tourism entrepreneur named Kylik Kisoun Taylor.
—Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
Human civilization, the proposal explained, had begun with hunter-gatherers, passed through the agrarian and industrial stages, and was fast approaching the end of the information age.
—Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says Scientists believe this extinct fox species may have been domesticated 1,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
But the latest research suggests that the hunter-gatherers' DNA was almost entirely erased.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
These immigrant farmers likely mixed with the Indigenous hunter-gatherer population.
—Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Scientists already understood that most Indians are descended from three groups: ancient Iranian farmers, Eurasian steppe herders and South Asian hunter-gatherers.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
They were colonized and forced off their land by the Japanese, made to give up their lifestyle as hunter-gatherers and forbidden from speaking their language and practicing their religion.
—Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
Our guide was an Inuvialuit-Gwich'in hunter-gatherer and tourism entrepreneur named Kylik Kisoun Taylor.
—Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
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