How to Use hunter-gatherer in a Sentence

hunter-gatherer

noun
  • The hunter-gatherers lived in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, around 1,200 miles east of the cave.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Most Europeans today have a mix of genes from three groups: farmers from Anatolia, hunter-gatherers from the west and herders from the east.
    CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • During the time of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, human jaws were adapted for stronger, larger teeth and muscles.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Scholars don’t agree as to when people moved away from a hunter-gatherer nomadic lifestyle.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
  • My gut feeling is this would have been a great location for historic hunter-gatherers.
    Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • While some of the hunter-gatherers spread throughout a warming Europe, others stayed in the Iberian Peninsula and mixed with the farmers there.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The stick may also have served as a toy spear for children, a practice seen in other hunter-gatherer societies.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • The Chinchorro people were early fishers and hunter-gatherers that lived in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions in the world.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • These hunter-gatherers painted pictographs in the rock shelters of the Lower Pecos River Country, and today, more than 200 sites still have these paintings.
    Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
  • But the latest research suggests that the hunter-gatherers' DNA was almost entirely erased.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The study, published in the journal Nature, found that rather than co-existing peacefully, the hunter-gatherers in what is now Denmark, were wiped out by farmer-settlers.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • So channel your inner hunter-gatherer and pull up your favorite browser.
    Peggy Paul Casella, WIRED, 2 July 2023
  • The name is derived from the Paleolithic era in history and operates on the premise that those following it should eat like the hunter-gatherers of 2.6 million years ago.
    USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But the carbon-14 dating determined they were made during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, when hunter-gatherer lifestyles were still prevalent.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Even more interesting is that personal risk-taking in these tiny songbirds follows the same rules seen in groups of human hunter-gatherers.
    Grrlscientist, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • As Woolly Mammoths trekked across Alaska thousands of years ago, hunter-gatherers followed their every step.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Another clear-eyed presence is former missionary Dan Everett, who traces his decades among hunter-gatherers in the Amazon.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Johannes, a San guide, tells stories over bonfires and enlightens guests on the tribe's hunter-gatherer practices during nature walks that are like mini survival lessons.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2023
  • About a quarter of her tribe’s members still are hunter-gatherers, says Ms. Gilbert, but private lease-holders block access to their land, and widespread cattle grazing has led to the near eradication of wild fruits and vegetables.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2023
  • These early Europeans have almost no genetic link to younger remains of hunter-gatherers.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, nature was the source of food, clothing, shelter, and other necessities.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Feb. 2023
  • They were colonized and forced off their land by the Japanese, made to give up their lifestyle as hunter-gatherers and forbidden from speaking their language and practicing their religion.
    Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Using these and other types of adornments, the researchers identified nine distinct cultural groups of hunter-gatherers that were present during this period.
    Sarah Wild, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Arguably, the authors write, prehistoric hunter-gatherers would have learned information from tracks that aided their survival.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says Scientists believe this extinct fox species may have been domesticated 1,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The blood-sucking parasites persistently bedded down in human hair and moved with hunter-gatherers from Asia into and throughout the Americas.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In other words, these are the type of tools that set our species on its evolutionary course to become ever more productive hunter-gatherers and technological tinkerers.
    Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And while diverging sleep schedules may seem like a modern problem, other researchers have speculated that chronotypes may have actually evolved in hunter-gatherers to help keep constant watch over the home.
    Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Over a millennium ago, an ancient society of hunter-gatherers in Argentina’s Patagonia region buried one of its members in a small cemetery.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024

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