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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This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
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Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites Created 'Multisensory Experience' For Hunter-Gatherers
By Aristos Georgiou
Science and Health Reporter
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A study of 780,000-year-old food remains has shed light on the diets of prehistoric human hunter-gatherers.
—Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
The cave art sheds light on the artistic ability and communication between hunter-gatherers during the middle Holocene period.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites Created 'Multisensory Experience' For Hunter-Gatherers
By Aristos Georgiou
Science and Health Reporter
1
A study of 780,000-year-old food remains has shed light on the diets of prehistoric human hunter-gatherers.
—Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
The cave art sheds light on the artistic ability and communication between hunter-gatherers during the middle Holocene period.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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