How to Use hunter-gatherer in a Sentence

hunter-gatherer

noun

• For those who thought that hunter-gatherers were lost to the pages of history, think again.
  — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
• So how did the hunter-gatherers become infected in the first place?
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
• By their own accounts, hunter-gatherers like the Hadza mostly sleep like a dream.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• These dogs lived with hunter-gatherer humans who were constantly on the move.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
• At that time, agriculture had not yet emerged, and humans lived as hunter-gatherers.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
• My gut feeling is this would have been a great location for historic hunter-gatherers.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2024
• Scholars don’t agree as to when people moved away from a hunter-gatherer nomadic lifestyle.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
• So channel your inner hunter-gatherer and pull up your favorite browser.
  — Peggy Paul Casella, WIRED, 2 July 2023
• In contrast to humans, who evolved in hunter-gatherer groups, orangutans come from a more solitary lineage.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
• One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• The stick may also have served as a toy spear for children, a practice seen in other hunter-gatherer societies.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• During the time of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, human jaws were adapted for stronger, larger teeth and muscles.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• Our closest ape relatives, like chimps and bonobos, show a fair amount of violence, as did many groups of hunter-gatherers.
  — Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
• This arrangement mirrors modern hunter-gatherer camps, where people still gather to sleep around the fire.
  — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
• Construction began on the project about 5,000 years ago, in an area that was thought to have been home to hunter-gatherers.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• But when the waters receded, the fish likely became trapped in the ponds, where hunter-gatherers could have easily speared them.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• Per a project summary, the team discovered caves filled with paintings and traces of hunter-gatherer settlements.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
• South American hunter-gatherers have alternated rest days with days full of movement for eons.
  — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• Researchers have also found the remains of poles, which suggests the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were setting up camps.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
• These ancient hunter-gatherers also depended on the cenotes as a water source, and probably for shelter as well.
  — Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
• The hunter-gatherers lived in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, around 1,200 miles east of the cave.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• See it Evidence of wear on the bones, as well as the presence of stone tools, indicates hunter-gatherers butchered and ate the large mammals near the lake.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• Even more interesting is that personal risk-taking in these tiny songbirds follows the same rules seen in groups of human hunter-gatherers.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• There’s also a nontrivial risk that ungoverned AI returns our kids or our kids’ kids to hunter-gatherer status.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
  — Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
• Either way, these ancient humans were skilled foragers and hunter-gatherers who lived in small groups of perhaps a dozen people and only rarely crossed paths with other bands.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
• For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, getting enough of these critical nutrients was a daily life-and-death struggle.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
• Around a hundred members of the hunter-gatherer Shompen tribe live in the Great Nicobar's rainforests.
  — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 June 2026
• Today’s fathers contribute more to childcare than even the most hands-on hunter-gatherer dad, because there’s simply less of a village to support shared care.
  — Darby Saxbe, Fortune, 21 June 2026
• The disease decimated not only crowded cities, but also small, nomadic hunter-gatherer groups.
  — ABC News, 17 June 2026