hunter-gatherer

[huhn-ter-gath -er-er]

noun Anthropology.

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

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Contemporary Examples of hunter-gatherer

Should we live like our hunter-gatherer forebears, run barefoot and eat nothing but meat, nuts, and fruit?
Eat Like a Caveman? The Trouble With Paleo Living
Robert Herritt
March 21, 2013

British Dictionary definitions for hunter-gatherer

hunter-gatherer

adjective

(of a society, lifestyle, etc) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence

noun

a member of such a society

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