Hunter-gatherer

A San. The San still live as hunter-gatherers

An inuit hunter in Greenland, carrying Reindeer.

Khanty girls gathering berries, in western Siberia

A hunter-gatherer society is one who lives from edible plants and animals from the wild, by foraging and hunting.

Often, the line between hunter-gatherers and other people is not clear-cut. Nomadic people often practice a mix of hunting, gathering and herding, and others spend some of their time in farming.

Hunter-gatherer Media

Central African foragers in the Congo Basin in August 2014
The Mal'ta-Buret' people in the Baikal region of Siberia lived in dwellings built of mammoth bones, similar to those found in Upper Paleolithic Western Eurasia.
Hunter-gatherers (yellow) 4,000 years ago (rough estimate)
A global map illustrating the decline of foraging/fishing/hunting/gathering around the world.
Hunter-gatherers (yellow) 3,000 years ago (rough estimate)
Bison hunt under the wolf-skin mask, George Catlin, c. 1832
Group of Andamanese hunting c. 1903
A 19th-century engraving of an Indigenous Australian encampment.