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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-gatherers
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.
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ArsTechnica,
18 June 2026
One is that community-wide outbreaks only took place after humans transitioned from being hunter-gatherers to early farmers.
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Margherita Bassi,
Popular Science,
17 June 2026
So how did the hunter-gatherers become infected in the first place?
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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.
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Buket Altınçelep,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
The Kalahari hunter-gatherers of southern Africa might not last long in Greenland, and vice versa for the Inuit.
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Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 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.
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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.
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Big Think,
1 May 2026
This pattern of temporary settlement continues among modern hunter-gatherers today, like the !
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Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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
The Kalahari hunter-gatherers of southern Africa might not last long in Greenland, and vice versa for the Inuit.
—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunter-gatherers
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In a stagnant, low-hire labor market both workers and job hunters are feeling stuck.
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In Idaho, lifetime licenses are available to hunters of all ages.
Noun
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Even though trapping itself isn’t painful to the animal, some anti-trappers and hunters are uncomfortable with the idea of an animal being captive, or experiencing fear when the trapper arrives to check the trap.
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“Hunter-gatherers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunter-gatherers. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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