How to Use hunter-gatherer in a Sentence

hunter-gatherer

noun

• The hunter-gatherers lived in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, around 1,200 miles east of the cave.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Construction began on the project about 5,000 years ago, in an area that was thought to have been home to hunter-gatherers.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• The shell fragments came from four Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites and 11 sites ranging from the Neolithic up to the Iron Age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• See it Evidence of wear on the bones, as well as the presence of stone tools, indicates hunter-gatherers butchered and ate the large mammals near the lake.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
  — Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
• Most Europeans today have a mix of genes from three groups: farmers from Anatolia, hunter-gatherers from the west and herders from the east.
  — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
• During the time of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, human jaws were adapted for stronger, larger teeth and muscles.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• Roughly 4,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in Central America built a network of canals and ponds to trap fish.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• Scholars don’t agree as to when people moved away from a hunter-gatherer nomadic lifestyle.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
• My gut feeling is this would have been a great location for historic hunter-gatherers.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2024
• While some of the hunter-gatherers spread throughout a warming Europe, others stayed in the Iberian Peninsula and mixed with the farmers there.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• The stick may also have served as a toy spear for children, a practice seen in other hunter-gatherer societies.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Researchers have also found the remains of poles, which suggests the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were setting up camps.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
• But when the waters receded, the fish likely became trapped in the ponds, where hunter-gatherers could have easily speared them.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• In contrast to humans, who evolved in hunter-gatherer groups, orangutans come from a more solitary lineage.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
• This paradox forced a trade-off for the hunter-gatherers: burn calories searching for food or conserve calories by staying home.
  — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• The Chinchorro people were early fishers and hunter-gatherers that lived in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions in the world.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• These hunter-gatherers painted pictographs in the rock shelters of the Lower Pecos River Country, and today, more than 200 sites still have these paintings.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
• One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• Desperate to save her daughter, Bea enters into a volunteer study to live as a hunter-gatherer in the Wilderness State.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
• But the latest research suggests that the hunter-gatherers' DNA was almost entirely erased.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
• The study, published in the journal Nature, found that rather than co-existing peacefully, the hunter-gatherers in what is now Denmark, were wiped out by farmer-settlers.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
• The adaptation tracks a shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a more agrarian one, as agriculture spread across Europe from the Middle East.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
• So channel your inner hunter-gatherer and pull up your favorite browser.
  — Peggy Paul Casella, WIRED, 2 July 2023
• Per a project summary, the team discovered caves filled with paintings and traces of hunter-gatherer settlements.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
• Now, scientists say most of the mammoths used to build the site were female, which suggests the Ice Age hunter-gatherers were hunting or scavenging from herds, rather than trapping lone males.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
• This arrangement mirrors modern hunter-gatherer camps, where people still gather to sleep around the fire.
  — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
• These dogs lived with hunter-gatherer humans who were constantly on the move.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
• At that time, agriculture had not yet emerged, and humans lived as hunter-gatherers.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026