How to Use hunter-gatherer in a Sentence

hunter-gatherer

noun
  • The hunter-gatherers lived in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, around 1,200 miles east of the cave.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Construction began on the project about 5,000 years ago, in an area that was thought to have been home to hunter-gatherers.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
  • See it Evidence of wear on the bones, as well as the presence of stone tools, indicates hunter-gatherers butchered and ate the large mammals near the lake.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
    — Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Most Europeans today have a mix of genes from three groups: farmers from Anatolia, hunter-gatherers from the west and herders from the east.
    — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • During the time of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, human jaws were adapted for stronger, larger teeth and muscles.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Roughly 4,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in Central America built a network of canals and ponds to trap fish.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Scholars don’t agree as to when people moved away from a hunter-gatherer nomadic lifestyle.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
  • My gut feeling is this would have been a great location for historic hunter-gatherers.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • While some of the hunter-gatherers spread throughout a warming Europe, others stayed in the Iberian Peninsula and mixed with the farmers there.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The stick may also have served as a toy spear for children, a practice seen in other hunter-gatherer societies.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • But when the waters receded, the fish likely became trapped in the ponds, where hunter-gatherers could have easily speared them.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • This paradox forced a trade-off for the hunter-gatherers: burn calories searching for food or conserve calories by staying home.
    — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • The Chinchorro people were early fishers and hunter-gatherers that lived in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions in the world.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • These hunter-gatherers painted pictographs in the rock shelters of the Lower Pecos River Country, and today, more than 200 sites still have these paintings.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
  • One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Desperate to save her daughter, Bea enters into a volunteer study to live as a hunter-gatherer in the Wilderness State.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
  • But the latest research suggests that the hunter-gatherers' DNA was almost entirely erased.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The study, published in the journal Nature, found that rather than co-existing peacefully, the hunter-gatherers in what is now Denmark, were wiped out by farmer-settlers.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The adaptation tracks a shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a more agrarian one, as agriculture spread across Europe from the Middle East.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
  • So channel your inner hunter-gatherer and pull up your favorite browser.
    — Peggy Paul Casella, WIRED, 2 July 2023
  • The name is derived from the Paleolithic era in history and operates on the premise that those following it should eat like the hunter-gatherers of 2.6 million years ago.
    — USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But the carbon-14 dating determined they were made during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, when hunter-gatherer lifestyles were still prevalent.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
  • These ancient hunter-gatherers also depended on the cenotes as a water source, and probably for shelter as well.
    — Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Even more interesting is that personal risk-taking in these tiny songbirds follows the same rules seen in groups of human hunter-gatherers.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • South American hunter-gatherers have alternated rest days with days full of movement for eons.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • As Woolly Mammoths trekked across Alaska thousands of years ago, hunter-gatherers followed their every step.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The technology has certainly come a long way from when Inuit hunter-gatherers used to wear caribou antlers carved with thin slits in order to prevent snow blindness.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The harsh realities of the Ice Age – scarce food, rising population and the limitations of hunter-gatherer life drove tribes to eat each other for sheer survival.
    — Avya Chaudhary, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024

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