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What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
Jenna McCarthy

Meaning of "hunter-gatherer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUNTER-GATHERER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUNTER-GATHERER

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Hunter-Gatherer can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES HUNTER-GATHERER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hunter-gatherer

Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer or forager society is a nomadic society in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species. Anthropologists have remarked that the term foraging is a more appropriate description of the predominant food source for most non-agricultural groups: Gathering is a far more important source of food than is hunting for the majority of non-agricultural societies, according to Richard Borshay Lee. Foraging was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo. As The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers says: "Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Until 12,000 years ago, all humans lived this way." Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers have been displaced by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world. Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement, sometimes extensively, their foraging activity with farming and/or keeping animals.

Definition of hunter-gatherer in the English dictionary

The definition of hunter-gatherer in the dictionary is surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence. Other definition of hunter-gatherer is a member of such a society.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUNTER-GATHERER

hunt sabbing
hunt saboteur
hunt the slipper
hunt the thimble
hunt up
huntable
huntaway
hunted
huntedly
hunter
hunter-killer
hunter-killer submarine
hunter´s moon
huntiegowk
hunting
hunting case
hunting cat
hunting ground
hunting horn
hunting knife

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUNTER-GATHERER

adherer
blatherer
bletherer
butcherer
cipherer
coherer
cosherer
decipherer
decoherer
ditherer
encipherer
Federer
furtherer
gatherer
God-botherer
ingatherer
latherer
murtherer
smotherer
weatherer
woolgatherer

Synonyms and antonyms of hunter-gatherer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hunter-gatherer» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of hunter-gatherer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hunter-gatherer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hunter-gatherer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

狩猎采集
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cazadores-recolectores
570 millions of speakers

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hunter-gatherer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शिकारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البدائية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

охотников-собирателей
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caçador-coletor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিকারী এবং সংগ্রহকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chasseurs-cueilleurs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemburu-pengumpul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jäger und Sammler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

狩猟採集民
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수렵 채집
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hunter-gatherer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

săn bắn hái lượm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காட்டுவாசி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिकारीची माणसे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Avcı toplayıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cacciatori-raccoglitori
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zbieracko -łowieckich
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мисливців - збирачів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vanator-culegator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυνηγών - τροφοσυλλεκτών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

jagter-versamelaars
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jägare och samlare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jegere og samlere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hunter-gatherer

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNTER-GATHERER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hunter-gatherer

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Famous quotes and sentences with the word hunter-gatherer.
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Jenna McCarthy
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUNTER-GATHERER»

Discover the use of hunter-gatherer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hunter-gatherer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hunter-gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and ...
This pioneering volume will help to stimulate further research and scholarship on hunter-gatherer childhoods, thereby advancing our understanding of the way of life that characterized most of human history and of the processes that may have ...
Barry S. Hewlett, Michael E. Lamb
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The Hunter-gatherer Within: Health and the Natural Human Diet
"We want to examine what the scientific evidence suggests is really going on when we eat food, and how we can eat and live in a way that best gives us the health benefits of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle while living in and enjoying the ...
Kerry G. Brock, George Minor Diggs, 2013
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Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer ...
It examines the economics of traditional societies, and concludes with a multifaceted investigation of how such societies function and what they can teach us in our own quest for environmental sustainability and social equality.Limited ...
John Gowdy, 1998
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Hunter-gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process
Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume will be of great interest to anyone involved with the study of foraging peoples.
Kenneth E. Sassaman, Donald H. Holly (Jr.), 2011
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Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response During the Younger ...
This volume is the first book in fifteen years to comprehensively address key questions regarding the extent of this event and how hunter-gatherer populations adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change.
Metin I Eren, 2012
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PAST AND PRESENT IN HUNTER GATHERER STUDIES
This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders.
Carmel Schrire, 2009
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Hunter-gatherer Economy in Prehistory: A European Perspective
The study of hunters and gatherers has become an increasingly popular and central topic of research.
G. N. Bailey, 1983
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A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Southwest Germany in the Late ...
He also discusses the data within the context of human events in western Europe during the same periods. The text is accompanied by 115 illustrations.
Robert L. Bettinger, Michael A. Jochim, 2012
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Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research
This book offers the most up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research and contains possibly the most comprehensive bibliography on hunter-gatherers ever published.
Ernest S. Burch, Linda J. Ellanna, 1994
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Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in ...
The research in this volume uses the theory as a starting point and expands the forager/ collector model.
Ben Fitzhugh, Junko Habu, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUNTER-GATHERER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hunter-gatherer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Humans face extinction if plant destruction continues: 'Laws of …
Humans will either go extinct or be forced to return to hunter-gatherer lifestyles if we continue to destroy Earth's plant life, a study has found. «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
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Rahul banking on perpetuating poverty to revive Congress …
... tribal areas like Odisha's Niyamgiri hills, preferring to let the inhabitants there to continue with their primitive hunter-gatherer existence. «Odisha Sun Times, Jul 15»
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Do 'wellness' bloggers actually know what they're talking about …
She describes herself as "a modern-day hunter-gatherer". "I think we got it right at the beginning and things have become more processed, and I think that's ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
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Human skeleton 'pre-colonial' - IOL SciTech
“The teeth are very worn, which is typical of a hunter-gatherer. The remains were also found in a flexed position and it appears as if a stone was ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
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Why do humans kiss each other when most animals don't? - BBC
Many hunter-gatherer groups showed no evidence of kissing or desire to do so. Some even considered it revolting. The Mehinaku tribe in Brazil ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
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WITF TV Picks for the week of July 19
Tuesday July 21 at 9:00pm - Humanity from Space - From the perspective of space, trace humankind's journey from hunter-gatherer to ... «witf.org, Jul 15»
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Scientists discover evidence of rudimentary dentistry from 14000 …
A team from the universities of Ferrara and Bologna analysed a molar from the skull of the 25-year-old hunter-gatherer, whose remains were ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Nearly half the world finds kissing in the open unacceptable
Given that hunter-gatherer groups are the closest modern humans got to living our ancestral lifestyle, our ancestors may not have been kissing ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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The Sources of American Conduct
... and agricultural riches, and sparsely populated by a brave but primitive stone-age hunter-gatherer people, decimated by European diseases, ... «Ricochet.com, Jul 15»
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Imagining the Future Is Dangerous - Slate Magazine
Video gamers "You get all your hunter-gatherer jones out of your system by playing video games. I know I do. But is that a good thing?". «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

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