Usage of "hunter-gatherer"

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Human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)

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Examples for "forager"

Examples for "forager"

He'd thought her only a forager - awomanof war intrigued him. 
 The Last Gladiatrix 

But in about a fortnight this forager came home, full of emptiness. 
 The Lincoln Story Book / A Judicious Collection of the Best Stor... 

He was a great forager, and kept us both in food. 
 Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War 

Nothing in the forager's calendar is more seasonal than birch sap. 
 The Guardian 

British forager Miles Irving says three-cornered leeks have been cultivated in Britain since 1759. 
 The Irish Times 

Usage of hunter-gatherer in English

Basically, it's a return to hunter-gatherer ways, only without heating your food. 
 The Guardian 

With Toynbee in mind, I let my thoughts regress to hunter-gatherer times. 
 Analog sff, december 2009 

Medieval peasants may indeed have been more miserable than their hunter-gatherer ancestors. 
 The Guardian 

The difference could be the result of evolutionary pressures on our hunter-gatherer ancestors. 
 Wired 

Many hunter-gatherer groups showed no evidence of kissing or desire to do so. 
 BBC 

The Awá are one of only two nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes left in Brazil. 
 The Guardian 

There would have therefore been a large flow of mating individuals between hunter-gatherer societies. 
 BBC 

Men and women in hunter-gatherer societies tend to bring back equal amounts of food. 
 The Guardian 

Women work hard in hunter-gatherer societies, often harder than men. 
 The Rational Optimist 

There is, incidentally, no hunter-gatherer society that dispenses with cooking. 
 The Rational Optimist 

The elders among ancient hunter-gatherer tribes knew that life could be brutal and short. 
 The Disposable Male 

The hunter-gatherer mythos of making do with less seems salient in the 21st century. 
 The Guardian 

Camilla Power of the University of East London in the UK studies hunter-gatherer groups today. 
 BBC 

A virus infecting a hunter-gatherer might only reach family members or perhaps a hunting group. 
 The Guardian 

The hunter-gatherer work, that was what he wanted now. 
 Lost in translation 

Human remains gathered from hunter-gatherer societies show mortality rates as high as 70%. 
 The Guardian 

Meanings of hunter-gatherer in English