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Noun
  1. A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
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It will be of particular importance to ensure that historically marginalised hunter-gatherer communities are granted real decision-making power.
The report in the Times names the Aka Pygmies, a hunter-gatherer tribe from the northern Congo, as the best fathers.
It has nothing to do with being an aboriginal artist or a hunter-gatherer artist.
As a hunter-gatherer society, the Cahuilla established a number of permanent and semi-permanent settlements within the valley.
Even though the age of the hunter-gatherer has long since passed, wild meat specialities continue to be extremely popular.
But how could a hunter-gatherer lifestyle feed the 20 million-strong population of Australia?

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