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

For centuries the Maniq -- one of Thailand's smallest ethnic minorities — lived as hunter-gatherers, roaming the rainforests of the Malay Peninsula, moving with the seasons in search of food.

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Some researchers have suggested that humans and wolves came together almost by accident, when wolves moved to the outskirts of hunter-gatherer communities to scavenge for food.

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They may have become nomads and hunter-gatherers to stay safe.

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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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