hunter gatherer
Pre-agricultural human lifestyle
Hunter-gatherer describes a way of life based on foraging wild foods rather than farming or herding.
Hunter-gatherer societies obtain food by hunting animals, fishing, and collecting plants, nuts, and insects.
The term usually refers to prehistoric peoples before agriculture, but some groups maintain this lifestyle today.
As a noun, a hunter-gatherer is a person living this way: The hunter-gatherers moved seasonally following game.
Also spelled hunter gatherer.
- foragerOne seeking wild food
- nomadHomeless wanderer by choice
- nomadic lifestyleDwelling pattern without permanence
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- spearPole with sharp point
berries · edible plants · wild game · primitive · paleolithic · ancestors · survival · tracking · bow · arrow · fire · tools · meat · roots · clan · early humans · wilderness · mammoth
- Huntersbowhunter, nimrod, archer, fowler, falconer
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
hunter gathererfarmer
One who cultivates land
agriculturalist · pastoralist · cultivator · herder · rancher
hunter gathererindustrialist
Major manufacturing business owner
urbanite · city dweller · industrial worker · technocrat · knowledge worker
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