hunting and gathering
Pre-agricultural food procurement
Hunting and gathering is the oldest human subsistence strategy, in which food comes from wild animals and foraged plants rather than agriculture or animal husbandry.
The phrase typically describes how prehistoric peoples lived before the development of farming, or the few remaining societies that still live this way: For most of human history, hunting and gathering was the only way to survive.
- trappingCatching with concealed devices
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- bow and arrowRanged weapon using tension
- forestTree-dense ecosystem
- skinningRemoving outer covering
butchering · animal hides · tribe · extended family · nomadism · savanna · fishing · foraging · berry picking · anthropology · subsistence economy · shamanism · rites of passage · oral tradition · storytelling · tundra · stone tools · lean-to shelter
- homesteadinghomesteading, self-sufficiency, off-grid living, off-grid, chicken coop
hunting and gatheringagriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
farming · pastoralism · animal husbandry · cultivation · herding
hunting and gatheringindustrial society
Civilization centered on manufacturing
hunting and gatheringindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
factory farming · monoculture · intensive farming · deforestation · terraforming
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