Synonyms of hunter-gatherers

hunter-gatherers

noun

plural of hunter-gatherer

as in hunters

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

Related Words

• hunters
• trappers
• huntsmen
• sportsmen
• archers
• falconers
• huntresses
• hawkers
• sportswomen
• birders
• gunners
• fowlers
• nimrods
• poachers

Dissimilar Words

• nonhunters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hunter-gatherers

Their analysis indicates that the cave paintings were probably made by hunter-gatherers who lived in Western and Central Europe sometime between 16,700 and 5,200 years ago. — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 July 2026

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth. — ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026

One is that community-wide outbreaks only took place after humans transitioned from being hunter-gatherers to early farmers. — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 17 June 2026

So how did the hunter-gatherers become infected in the first place? — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026

That’s the latest reason given in a series of efforts to evict the Ogiek people, an Indigenous group of hunter-gatherers in the Mau forest of East Africa. — Buket Altınçelep, The Conversation, 12 June 2026

On the ground, days are unhurried, with private game drives, foot tracking with Hadzabe hunter-gatherers and dinners staged in a different corner of the reserve each evening. — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 23 May 2026

Physical spaces have always embodied what societies care about — from those first stone monuments that hunter-gatherers built to demonstrate loyalty to each other and to higher powers. — Big Think, 1 May 2026

This pattern of temporary settlement continues among modern hunter-gatherers today, like the ! — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026