hunter-gatherer

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English

Etymology

From hunter +‎ gatherer.

Noun

hunter-gatherer (plural hunter-gatherers)

  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.
    Coordinate term: pastoralist
    • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 February 2012, page 162:
      He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
    • 2022 July 11, Virginia Hefferman, “Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans”, in Wired‎:
      […] 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).

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References

  • Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.

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