hunter-gatherer
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈhʌntərˈɡæðərər/
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cazador-recolector
- We've come a long way from the hunter-gatherer groups that learned to tame fire.
- hunter-gatherer society
- hunter-gatherer group
- hunter-gatherer lifestyle
And in that time, we've gone from hunter gatherers to farmers.
- And in that time, we've gone from hunter gatherers to farmers.
- So yes, the simplest human societies, nomadic hunter gatherers, do fight.
- Nature Communications this week had a paper published about hunter gatherers.
- We know that in hunter gatherer societies from thousands of years ago, envy was a real problem.
- But then again, you know, we went from hunter gatherer cultures to writing war and peace and everything else, technologies of all kinds.
- They were they, they developed there from hunter gatherers into basic farmers.
- We still think, I think in many ways with a hunter gatherer mentality.
- So after a nuclear war man returns to his hunter gatherer state.
- The Ana Mono in South America have some some hunter gatherer members.
- One reason is it was essentially impossible to stockpile resources in a hunter gatherer forging society.
- So these hunter gatherer species, which was us have a survival mindset.
Examples
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In addition to dancing and singing, hunter-gatherer cultures used natural materials to create instruments.
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Anthropologists study how hunter-gatherers lived without farming or domesticated animals.
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Because men in ancient times were hunter gatherers, so they were outside more.
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See, moving on had been easier as a hunter-gatherer...
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How far do you think the average hunter gatherer walks?
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Similarly, some human hunter-gatherers obtained enough salt from the meat that they ate.
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We know that in hunter gatherer societies from thousands of years ago, envy was a real problem.
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A good example is the sharing of large game, a central and commonplace event for many hunter-gatherers.
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The people who carved the petroglyphs either lived here as hunter-gatherers or traveled through the territory.
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For instance, trespassing was often regarded in hunter-gatherer societies as an offense against a group's sanctified territory.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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5.3
A person or animal that looks for food in the wild
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hunter-gatherer comes from two simple words: hunter ('one who hunts') and gatherer ('one who collects wild plants and food'). So it names people who live by hunting animals and gathering wild plants instead of farming.