Hunter-gatherer/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Hunter-gatherer.

A member of a group of an extinct hominid species or of modern human societies who obtain their food through foraging, which includes hunting, gathering (as of fruits, nuts, roots/tubers, and other plant foods), and fishing, who thus subsist on foods available solely in the wild.