Hunter-gatherer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hunter-gatherer is a noun meaning A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
Meaning
A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
Example Sentences
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
“DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.
[…] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).
Word Forms
- hunter-gatherers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include agropastoralist, nomade, preagriculturalist, primitive, archaic, hoe-farming.
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