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- adjective Of or pertaining to
hunter-gatherers .
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Examples
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Now, hunter-gathering is a different story; I could imagine humans being happy living that life.
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In just 5,000 years, our version of humanity has gone from hunter-gathering to space travel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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On the other hand, the eventual domestication of corn, about 7,000 years B.P. marked a true watershed in pre-Hispanic life, enabling the abandonment of a nomadic hunter-gathering existence in favor of settlement in semi-permanent villages.
Did You Know? Archaeologists have found fifteen-hundred-year-old kitchens 2008
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On the other hand, the eventual domestication of corn, about 7,000 years B.P. marked a true watershed in pre-Hispanic life, enabling the abandonment of a nomadic hunter-gathering existence in favor of settlement in semi-permanent villages.
Did You Know? Archaeologists have found fifteen-hundred-year-old kitchens 2008
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It's difficult to understand how hunter-gathering people could have selectively "wiped out" the dire wolf, and not the "regular" or timber wolf.
April 2010 2010
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In just 5,000 years, our version of humanity has gone from hunter-gathering to space travel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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It's difficult to understand how hunter-gathering people could have selectively "wiped out" the dire wolf, and not the "regular" or timber wolf.
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In just 5,000 years, our version of humanity has gone from hunter-gathering to space travel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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It's difficult to understand how hunter-gathering people could have selectively "wiped out" the dire wolf, and not the "regular" or timber wolf.
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Many maintain a traditional swidden agriculture, with hunter-gathering and trading in artefacts; some today also live on mining and tourism.
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