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Vinony

hunter-gatherer

noun

  1. human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English hunter English gatherer English hunter-gatherer From hunter + gatherer.

  1. 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.

    “He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”

    “[…] 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).”