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

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  Central African foragers in the Congo Basin in August 2014

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  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.

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  Hunter-gatherers (yellow) 4,000 years ago (rough estimate)

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  A global map illustrating the decline of foraging/fishing/hunting/gathering around the world.

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  Hunter-gatherers (yellow) 3,000 years ago (rough estimate)

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  Bison hunt under the wolf-skin mask, George Catlin, c. 1832

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  Group of Andamanese hunting c. 1903

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  A 19th-century engraving of an Indigenous Australian encampment.

Related pages

• Indigenous Australians
• Pygmy
• Inuit
• Human migration
• Indigenous peoples
• Nomads
• Neolithic revolution
• Farming

Other websites

• African Pygmies Culture and photos of these African hunter-gatherers.
• Reconstructed bone flutes, sound sample and playing instructions.
• A wiki dedicated to the scientific study of the diversity of foraging societies without recreating myths
• How Our “Hunter Gatherer” DNA Is Making Us Fat Now Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine