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.

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hunter-gatherer British  

adjective

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

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noun

1. a member of such a society

Example Sentences

According to Pailler, there could have been a transmission of know-how on extracting, cutting and transporting the stones between older Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and incoming Neolithic agriculturists.

From BBC

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

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.

From Barron's

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC