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- noun Plural form of
hunter-gatherer .
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In a famous essay, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called hunter-gatherers “the original affluent society” because the simplicity of their material wants, needs and diet left them with so much leisure time on their hands.
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In a famous essay, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called hunter-gatherers “the original affluent society” because the simplicity of their material wants, needs and diet left them with so much leisure time on their hands.
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In a famous essay, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called hunter-gatherers “the original affluent society” because the simplicity of their material wants, needs and diet left them with so much leisure time on their hands.
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Up until their early adulthood, they were hunter-gatherers.
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The original people, the first hunter-gatherers, say that it all comes down to hunting, cooking, and eating, which get you ready to make love.
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But there are still a few of us who, recognizing our inner state of brokenness and permanent feeling of inadequacy, want to stop being hunter-gatherers -- impressing the world with our flashy possessions -- and instead light up the world with the luminescence of our souls.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct
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He also studied the emergence of agriculture, a classic problem for researchers examining why people stopped being hunter-gatherers.
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He later did fieldwork with hunter-gatherers in Australia and northwest Alaska, where Eskimos taught him to butcher caribou according to their traditions.
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Trade is much older than farming: Australian aborigines used to trade stone axes for sting-ray barbs over long distances, showing that hunter-gatherers can benefit from exchange.
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But there are still a few of us who, recognizing our inner state of brokenness and permanent feeling of inadequacy, want to stop being hunter-gatherers -- impressing the world with our flashy possessions -- and instead light up the world with the luminescence of our souls.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct
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