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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
By analyzing the bones and pyre sediments, researchers believe that hunter-gatherers cremated the body of a woman about 9,500 years ago, according to their study published Thursday in the journal Science Advances.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
The authors of the new, groundbreaking study noted that the discovery changed their perspective on these early hunter-gatherers in Africa, as a group that demonstrated cohesion, as the site appeared to hold significance as a permanent location where individuals were laid to rest.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Here was a human elbow joint, burned and fractured, preserved in sediments full of debris from the daily lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
—Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
In the sixth episode, Smith and San Bushman guide Kane Motswana go hunting with members of a San village, Indigenous hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa, who live in the Kalahari Desert.
—Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 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
By their own accounts, hunter-gatherers like the Hadza mostly sleep like a dream.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Most of these migrants were fisher-hunter-gatherers and belonged to numerous ethnic groups who left vital evidence of their presence in stones, burial sites, and artifacts.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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
Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
The authors of the new, groundbreaking study noted that the discovery changed their perspective on these early hunter-gatherers in Africa, as a group that demonstrated cohesion, as the site appeared to hold significance as a permanent location where individuals were laid to rest.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Here was a human elbow joint, burned and fractured, preserved in sediments full of debris from the daily lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
—Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
In the sixth episode, Smith and San Bushman guide Kane Motswana go hunting with members of a San village, Indigenous hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa, who live in the Kalahari Desert.
—Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 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
By their own accounts, hunter-gatherers like the Hadza mostly sleep like a dream.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Most of these migrants were fisher-hunter-gatherers and belonged to numerous ethnic groups who left vital evidence of their presence in stones, burial sites, and artifacts.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunter-gatherers
hunters
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This discovery shifts the blame for the woolly rhino’s demise away from prehistoric hunters.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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Evolutionary biologists have long debated whether hunters or climate change ultimately doomed the woolly rhinoceros.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
14 Jan. 2026
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