hunter-gatherer
noun
hunt·er-gath·er·er
ˈhən-tər-ˈga-t͟hər-ər 
: a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
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The cave art sheds light on the artistic ability and communication between hunter-gatherers during the middle Holocene period.
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Roughly 4,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in Central America built a network of canals and ponds to trap fish.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Slowly and, at first, tentatively, in 2015, the American-Statesman began sifting through the available evidence to find out what really happened, especially in respect to the Central Texas Tonkawa, hunter-gatherers who ranged on both sides of the Balcones Fault.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
In some ways, tracking’s revival began in the 1980s, when a South African physics student named Louis Liebenberg abandoned his studies, bought a Land Cruiser and drove into the Kalahari Desert to commune with the San, a group of hunter-gatherers that includes the Ju/’hoansi.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Roughly 4,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in Central America built a network of canals and ponds to trap fish.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Slowly and, at first, tentatively, in 2015, the American-Statesman began sifting through the available evidence to find out what really happened, especially in respect to the Central Texas Tonkawa, hunter-gatherers who ranged on both sides of the Balcones Fault.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
In some ways, tracking’s revival began in the 1980s, when a South African physics student named Louis Liebenberg abandoned his studies, bought a Land Cruiser and drove into the Kalahari Desert to commune with the San, a group of hunter-gatherers that includes the Ju/’hoansi.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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