hunter-gatherer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
hunter-gatherer (plural hunter-gatherers)
- A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
- Coordinate term: pastoralist
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 February 2012, page 162:
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
Translations edit
person whose main food source is hunting and gathering
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References edit
- Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.
Further reading edit
- hunter-gatherer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia