A hunter-gatherer, or forager, is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, [1][2] that is, by gathering food from local …

Dec 22, 2025 · Hunter-gatherer, any person who depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest …

Jan 5, 2018 · Hunter-gatherers were prehistoric nomadic groups that harnessed the use of fire, developed intricate knowledge of plant life and refined technology for hunting and domestic purposes …

Feb 4, 2025 · Hunter-gatherer societies represent the earliest form of human social organization. For thousands of years, humans lived in small, mobile groups that subsisted by hunting wild animals, …

Jun 23, 2025 · How do hunter-gatherer societies vary and what may explain their variability? Research on hunter-gatherers continues to be of major interest to anthropologists and other social scientists.

Dec 10, 2025 · The meaning of HUNTER-GATHERER is a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry.

Nov 20, 2024 · Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like honey, for food. Until approximately …