Dictionary

hunter-gatherer en · NOUN

Etymology

From hunter + gatherer.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • […] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau). 2022 July 11, Virginia Hefferman, “Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans”, in Wired, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022:
   • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
   • “DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said. 2024 January 11, Katie Hunt, “Gene that protected humans 5,000 years ago may be linked to debilitating modern disease”, in CNN:

Forms

Coordinates

pastoralist

Translations (25)

eu ehiztari-biltzaile (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · ru охо́тник-собира́тель (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · cmn 狩獵採集者 /狩猎采集者 (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · ja 狩猟採集民 (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · pt caçador-recoletor (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · ko 수렵채집민 (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · pt caçador-coletor (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · th คนเก็บของป่าล่าสัตว์ (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · fi metsästäjä-keräilijä (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · rm chatschader e rimnader (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · cy heliwr-gasglwr (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · de Jäger und Sammler (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · hu vadászó-gyűjtögető (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · cmn 狩獵採集民 /狩猎采集民 (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · es cazador-recolector (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · pl łowca-zbieracz (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · ca caçador-recol·lector (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · it cacciatore-raccoglitore (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · fr chasseur-cueilleur (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · el κυνηγός-συλλέκτης (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · de Wildbeuter und Feldbeuter (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · nl jager-verzamelaar (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · el τροφοσυλλέκτης (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · de Wild- und Feldbeuter (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering) · ga fiagaí cnuasaitheoir (person whose main food source is hunting and gathering)