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hunter-gatherer

[ huhn-ter-gath-er-er ]

noun

Anthropology.
  1. a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.


hunter-gatherer

adjective

  1. (of a society, lifestyle, etc) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a member of such a society
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Few details are known about the group, other than they are a hunter-gatherer community who live in small settlements and are "extremely healthy", he said.

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It looks at the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming communities.

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They were home to 400,000 people, including six hunter-gatherer groups who had lived isolated from the outside world for thousands of years.

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The data shows that prehistoric hunter-gatherers approaching the rock painting sites by water entered a special sensory environment where reality sounded doubled.

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Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven.

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