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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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Roughly 4,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in Central America built a network of canals and ponds to trap fish.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Slowly and, at first, tentatively, in 2015, the American-Statesman began sifting through the available evidence to find out what really happened, especially in respect to the Central Texas Tonkawa, hunter-gatherers who ranged on both sides of the Balcones Fault.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
In some ways, tracking’s revival began in the 1980s, when a South African physics student named Louis Liebenberg abandoned his studies, bought a Land Cruiser and drove into the Kalahari Desert to commune with the San, a group of hunter-gatherers that includes the Ju/’hoansi.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Desperate to save her daughter, Bea enters into a volunteer study to live as a hunter-gatherer in the Wilderness State.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Slowly and, at first, tentatively, in 2015, the American-Statesman began sifting through the available evidence to find out what really happened, especially in respect to the Central Texas Tonkawa, hunter-gatherers who ranged on both sides of the Balcones Fault.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
In some ways, tracking’s revival began in the 1980s, when a South African physics student named Louis Liebenberg abandoned his studies, bought a Land Cruiser and drove into the Kalahari Desert to commune with the San, a group of hunter-gatherers that includes the Ju/’hoansi.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Desperate to save her daughter, Bea enters into a volunteer study to live as a hunter-gatherer in the Wilderness State.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for hunter-gatherer
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“Hunter-gatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherer. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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