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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
Dogs evolved from gray wolves (Canis lupus) that began living near human hunter-gatherer settlements at least 15,000 years ago—long before agriculture became a thing.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
The technology has certainly come a long way from when Inuit hunter-gatherers used to wear caribou antlers carved with thin slits in order to prevent snow blindness.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
The fact that hunter-gatherers built Poverty Point challenges conventional ideas about early civilizations.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
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.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
The technology has certainly come a long way from when Inuit hunter-gatherers used to wear caribou antlers carved with thin slits in order to prevent snow blindness.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
The fact that hunter-gatherers built Poverty Point challenges conventional ideas about early civilizations.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
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.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Hunter-gatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherer. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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