hunter-gatherer society

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hunter-gatherer
noun[C]
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/ˌhʌn.təˈɡæð.ər.ər/us
/ˌhʌn.t̬ɚˈɡæð.ɚ.ɚ/
a member of a society that lives by hunting and collecting wild food, rather than ...
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society
noun
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/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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They are a rare example of a complexhunter-gatherersocietythat constructed large scale monuments.
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The region was largely inhabited by the taluhet people, part of the het nation, ahunter-gatherersocietybetter known by the exonym querandi.
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It is spoken by a traditionallyhunter-gatherersocietythat has now turned to agriculture.
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In anyhunter-gatherersociety, the basic mechanism for establishing trust in symbolic cultural facts is collective "ritual".
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A complexhunter-gatherersocietyemerged along the coast.
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They advocated a radical form of green politics and a return tohunter-gatherersocietywhile stating their opposition to science, medicine and technology.
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The mutates (as the astronauts label them) are violent, one-eyed surface dwellers who live in a primitivehunter-gatherersociety.
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This means that ahunter-gatherersocietywould possess the same amount of intelligence as an advanced industrial society.
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They were a maritime,hunter-gatherersocietywhose livelihood was based on the sea.
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The significant lifestyle changes from a small, nomadic,hunter-gatherersocietyto a large, sedentary, agrarian society resulted in major health changes among the population.
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He has written extensively about art, archaeology, the evolution ofhunter-gatherersocietyand culture, the co-evolution of genes and culture, social change and anthropological theory.
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In any event there is increasing interest in and recognition of the variability and historicity of hunter-gatherer societies and groups.
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They are ahunter-gatherersociety.
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This last subject implies a critical analysis of the prevailing evolutionary-ecological perspective on hunter-gatherer societies.
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And neither are they explicitly taught, at least in hunter-gatherer societies.
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That is, in at least a number of hunter-gatherer societies, knowledge is transmitted indirectly through narrative descriptions of events.
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Thus, we may conclude that most mental functions were built to subserve survival in early hunter-gatherer societies.
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Social scientists have identified hunter-gatherer societies, nomadic pastoral societies, horticulturalist or simple farming societies, and intensive agricultural societies, also called civilizations.
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However, the foraging mode of production still exists, and often typified in contemporary hunter-gatherer societies.
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