hunter-gatherer
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Vocabulary lists containing hunter-gatherer
The Stone Age - Middle School and High School
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For hundreds of thousands of years, humans evolved to meet the physical and psychological demands of hunter-gatherer life, which required frequent movement, short bursts of intense stress and daily exposure to natural settings.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025
That was probably useful in a hunter-gatherer society.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025
It looks at the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming communities.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024
A reliance on artefacts will thus bias an account of ancient hunter-gatherer life.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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