How to Use hunter-gatherer in a Sentence

hunter-gatherer

noun
  • For those who thought that hunter-gatherers were lost to the pages of history, think again.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So how did the hunter-gatherers become infected in the first place?
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
  • By their own accounts, hunter-gatherers like the Hadza mostly sleep like a dream.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • My gut feeling is this would have been a great location for historic hunter-gatherers.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 26 Apr. 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
  • So channel your inner hunter-gatherer and pull up your favorite browser.
    — Peggy Paul Casella, WIRED, 2 July 2023
  • In contrast to humans, who evolved in hunter-gatherer groups, orangutans come from a more solitary lineage.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
  • One acre of land was capable of producing a hundred times more food than hunter-gatherers could provide.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our closest ape relatives, like chimps and bonobos, show a fair amount of violence, as did many groups of hunter-gatherers.
    — Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This arrangement mirrors modern hunter-gatherer camps, where people still gather to sleep around the fire.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • While hunter-gatherers from that time are known to have used their teeth as tools — holding, breaking, stretching things — none of those uses matched the grooves on these teeth.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Per a project summary, the team discovered caves filled with paintings and traces of hunter-gatherer settlements.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • South American hunter-gatherers have alternated rest days with days full of movement for eons.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • These ancient hunter-gatherers also depended on the cenotes as a water source, and probably for shelter as well.
    — Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Most wild animals are extremely lean, so hunter-gatherers crave the fat-rich parts of the body, including the marrow and liver.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • To further bolster their findings, biochemists even flagged arceoline traces in the dental tissue of both hunter-gatherers.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Even more interesting is that personal risk-taking in these tiny songbirds follows the same rules seen in groups of human hunter-gatherers.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The hunter-gatherer concept known for paleo bowls, nachos and its vegan queso serves bar-and-grill basics in a healthier form.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2026
  • There’s also a nontrivial risk that ungoverned AI returns our kids or our kids’ kids to hunter-gatherer status.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This was a shamanic site of the San, the nomadic hunter-gatherers who first inhabited South Africa.
    — Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Either way, these ancient humans were skilled foragers and hunter-gatherers who lived in small groups of perhaps a dozen people and only rarely crossed paths with other bands.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025

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