How to Use hunter-gatherer in a Sentence
hunter-gatherer
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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 -
Construction began on the project about 5,000 years ago, in an area that was thought to have been home to hunter-gatherers.
— Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
See it Evidence of wear on the bones, as well as the presence of stone tools, indicates hunter-gatherers butchered and ate the large mammals near the lake.
— Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 May 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 -
This paradox forced a trade-off for the hunter-gatherers: burn calories searching for food or conserve calories by staying home.
— Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024 -
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 -
The harsh realities of the Ice Age – scarce food, rising population and the limitations of hunter-gatherer life drove tribes to eat each other for sheer survival.
— Avya Chaudhary, Discover Magazine, 3 June 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 -
This period is known for the rise of pottery cultures, the apex of the hunter-gatherer culture, and an emerging preference for permanent settlements toward its end.
— Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024 -
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 -
Crawford is an inveterate collector, a hunter-gatherer par excellence, and her home is a testament to decades spent amassing oddities and objets de vertu of every stripe.
— Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
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