People who get their food by gathering edible wild plants and other materials and by hunting wild animals and fish. Compare agricultural revolution, environmental revolution, industrial revolution, information and globalization revolution.
(HUNT·er-GATH·er·ers). A society that depends on hunting animals and gathering vegetation for subsistence.
A term applied to people whose diet is based on hunting, fishing, and gathering, as opposed to domesticating animals or plants.
Humans surviving by hunting wild game and gathering seeds, nuts, berries, and other edible things from the natural environment.
Most California Indians were originally hunter-gatherers, a nomadic lifestyle in which all sustenance was derived from wild plants and animals. A complex and detailed knowledge of plant and animal species, as well as the climate and land, are necessary to be a successful hunter-gatherer. Some tribes also cultivated native plants, and later adopted corn.
A term describing a society whose main sources of food are hunted wild animals and gathered wild fruits, nuts and other edible plants. Seafood was probably also very important in a hunter-gatherer's diet. This lifestyle is still carried on in some cultures such as the Native Americans, Kalahari Bushmen and Australian Aborigines. In the British Isles this was the primary mode of subsistence in the Mesolithic period.
A collective term for the members of small scale mobile or semi-mobile sedentary societies, whose subsistence is mainly focused on hunting game and gathering wild plants and fruits. Organisational structure is based on bonds with strong kinship ties.
people who obtain their food and raw materials by hunting and foraging for wild animals and plants, rather than by raising domestic animals or growing crops.
People or societies that are dependent on wild food resources. Hunter-gatherers are usually from technologically simple societies that are highly mobile. Also sometimes called "foragers."