Hunter-gather

"Hunter-gather" in a Sentence (6 examples)

A study from the University of Utah (surely one of the middle-American desert's most respected seats of learning) finds that prehistoric man only managed to hunter-gather at the rate of one large animal per month.

[T]he last of the wild Colorado elk was hunter-gathered by a table of wine-tasting bankers.

Deprived of the freedom to hunter-gather at will across the great open plains of the British High Street, I’ve learned much of what I need I already possess in my metaphorical cave.

Native Americans and other hunter-gathers would give thanks to their prey for giving up its life so the eater might live (sort of like saying grace).

Trading livestock might have represented “an initial step for domestication” in hunter-gatherer societies, [Ben] Krause-Kyora said.

He [Randy Haas] also said it is theoretically possible that hunter-gathers such as the Andeans were meat-based to start with and the “transition to a plant-based diet happened much more quickly than previously thought”.

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