hunter-gatherer
noun
hunt·er-gath·er·er
ˈhən-tər-ˈga-t͟hər-ər 
: a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
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As that happened, animal and plant populations shifted range or died out, and hunter-gatherer societies either became nomadic or clustered around remaining water sources and took up one or another form of sedentary agriculture, including the cultivation of the date palm.
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Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Brumm and his colleagues retrieved DNA a few years back from the bones of a female teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on Sulawesi, revealing evidence of a previously unknown group of humans, but such finds are incredibly rare.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
The study reinforced general perception regarding the positive correlation between economic development and obesity, and the opposite for hunter-gatherer and farming societies.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 July 2025
The people involved ran the spectrum from hunter-gatherers and farming populations with low obesity rates, to people in more sedentary jobs in places like Europe and the U.S., where obesity is widespread.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 24 July 2025
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Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Brumm and his colleagues retrieved DNA a few years back from the bones of a female teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on Sulawesi, revealing evidence of a previously unknown group of humans, but such finds are incredibly rare.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
The study reinforced general perception regarding the positive correlation between economic development and obesity, and the opposite for hunter-gatherer and farming societies.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 July 2025
The people involved ran the spectrum from hunter-gatherers and farming populations with low obesity rates, to people in more sedentary jobs in places like Europe and the U.S., where obesity is widespread.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 24 July 2025
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