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a member of a culture in which people hunt animals and look for plants to eat instead of growing crops and raising animals
a tribe of hunter-gatherers
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Recent Examples of hunter-gatherer
The researchers found that around 6,000 years ago, the CLV people began migrating in two directions: One group moved west into what is now Ukraine and mixed with local hunter-gatherers, eventually forming the Yamnaya genome.
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Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Through migration, both hunter-gatherer and early farming groups mixed and mingled, sharing their genomes and, more importantly for this study, their languages.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
—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
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Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Through migration, both hunter-gatherer and early farming groups mixed and mingled, sharing their genomes and, more importantly for this study, their languages.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
—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
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“Hunter-gatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherer. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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