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hunter-gatherer
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hunt·er-gath·er·er (hntr-gr-r)
n.
A member of a people subsisting in the wild on food obtained by hunting and foraging.
hunter-gatherer Anthropol
adj
(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) (of a society, lifestyle, etc.) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence
n
(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) a member of such a society
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Noun1.hunter-gatherer - a member of a hunting and gathering societyhunter-gatherer - a member of a hunting and gathering society
hunting and gathering society, hunting and gathering tribe - group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic
barbarian, savage - a member of an uncivilized people
Translations
hunter-gatherer
n → Jäger und Sammler m; they were hunters-gatherers → sie waren Jäger und Sammler
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The hunter-gatherers who inhabited Scandinavia more than 4,000 years ago had a different gene pool than ours," explained Anders Gotherstrom of the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University, who headed the project together with Eske Willerslev of the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen.
Present day Scandinavians may have descended from Stone Age immigrants by Asian News International
This is especially discouraging given the fact that for millennia many African hunter-gatherers never knew what it meant to be bungs.
Global Service Corps: promoting food security in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kinsey, Erwin / Earth Island Journal
95 Hardcover E78 The Late Archaic and Early Woodland peoples lived in the region of Ohio between 5000 and 2000 years ago, a period of transition in which hunter-gatherers began to grow native seed crops, establish more permanent settlements, and develop complex forms of ritual and ceremonialism, sometimes involving burial mound construction.
Transitions; archaic and early Woodland research in the Ohio country by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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