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

noun

1. a member of such a society

Example Sentences

Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.

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As you may recall from school, hunter-gatherers followed the food; agriculture turned nomads into settlers, who turned wolves into dogs and sheep into wool.

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Harari’s ambitious work is the story of us, from our earliest moments as hunter-gatherers, through our greatest challenges and to the advancements that shaped the modern world.

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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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