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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hunter-gatherernoun

    a member of a hunting and gathering society

Wiktionary

  1. hunter-gatherernoun

    A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.

  2. Etymology: hunter + gatherer

Wikipedia

  1. Hunter-gatherer

    A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, honey, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish), roughly as most animal omnivores do. Hunter-gatherer societies stand in contrast to the more sedentary agricultural societies, which rely mainly on cultivating crops and raising domesticated animals for food production, although the boundaries between the two ways of living are not completely distinct. Hunting and gathering was humanity's original and most enduring successful competitive adaptation in the natural world, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers who did not change were displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.Only a few contemporary societies of uncontacted people are still classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement their foraging activity with horticulture or pastoralism.

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  1. hunter-gatherer

    A hunter-gatherer is a member of a nomadic society who lives by hunting animals and gathering wild plants and fruit for food, rather than farming or keeping livestock. This lifestyle characterized human existence until the invention of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherers typically live in small, mobile, and socially egalitarian groups.

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  1. Hunter-gatherer

    A hunter-gatherer or forager society is one in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies which rely mainly on domesticated species. Hunter-gatherers are a type of nomad. Hunting and gathering was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo. As The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers says: "Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Until 12,000 years ago, all humans lived this way." Following the invention of agriculture hunter-gatherers have been displaced by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world. Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement, sometimes extensively, their foraging activity with farming and/or keeping animals.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hunter-gatherer in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hunter-gatherer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of hunter-gatherer in a Sentence

  1. Marian Tupy:

    Some of the anti-capitalist impulse goes back to that hunter-gatherer mentality and not comprehending the complexity of the market economy, the complexity outpaced our ability to understand it. But even those who don’t understand markets should open their eyes and acknowledge its benefits : Worldwide, wherever economic freedom is allowed, millions of people have lifted themselves out of stoop labor and miserable poverty. Of course, not everyone can reap the benefits of markets. The sick, the mentally ill and other truly helpless people need a hand. But why assume government must provide that help ? Government does n’t do anything very well. Why not let private charity handle it ? I once assumed there was too much poverty for private charity to make much of a difference. But now I realize there is plenty of money, and private charity would do much more if government did n’t discourage it. When the welfare state took over poverty relief, it crowded out.


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