Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a people subsisting in the wild on food obtained by hunting and foraging.
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- noun A
member of a group of people who live byhunting animals andgathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals orfarm land .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a hunting and gathering society
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Examples
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However, it would be misleading to suggest that all the Polar Eskimos here belong to a culture which could be called "hunter-gatherer".
World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness 2011
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Toma has lived the old way of being a hunter-gatherer, and he is legendary among his people for being very brave.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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There were about thirty other people there, the size of your basic hunter-gatherer tribe in the Paleolithic.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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There were about thirty other people there, the size of your basic hunter-gatherer tribe in the Paleolithic.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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There were about thirty other people there, the size of your basic hunter-gatherer tribe in the Paleolithic.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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Sort of like weightlifting or special diets--activities which no hunter-gatherer would have engaged in, but which help our bodies return to a more natural state of health and wellbeing.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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Sort of like weightlifting or special diets--activities which no hunter-gatherer would have engaged in, but which help our bodies return to a more natural state of health and wellbeing.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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Sort of like weightlifting or special diets--activities which no hunter-gatherer would have engaged in, but which help our bodies return to a more natural state of health and wellbeing.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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Sort of like weightlifting or special diets--activities which no hunter-gatherer would have engaged in, but which help our bodies return to a more natural state of health and wellbeing.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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There were about thirty other people there, the size of your basic hunter-gatherer tribe in the Paleolithic.
Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011
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