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hunter-gatherer

American  
[huhn-ter-gath-er-er] / ˈhʌn tərˈgæð ər ər /

noun

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


hunter-gatherer British  

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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Daniel E. Lieberman has studied the diets of indigenous cultures worldwide, from the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania, to Maasai herders in Kenya and the Tarahumara Native Americans of northern Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The hypothesis itself arose from observations of grandmothers’ behaviors in extant hunter-gatherer groups in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The implication was clear: farming know-how had been imported into the “waterworld” hunter-gatherer communities by women.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026

Perhaps this kind of model might also apply to other parts of Europe where we lack evidence for how the increased hunter-gatherer ancestry in the later Neolithic came about.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026

That would be a fair supposition in the twenty- first century, but our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have agreed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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