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Preferred term
hunting and gathering
Definition
- For the vast, overwhelming majority of time in which human beings have existed—97% to 99% of the period since the first hominids appeared—they lived in a type of society commonly known as hunting and gathering. Many species of the genuses Australopithecus and Homo practiced this form of survival, which also typified the lifestyle, social organization, and culture of Homo sapiens until relatively recently—that is, until the emergence of agriculture roughly 10,000 years ago. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Hunting and Gathering]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/hunting_and_gathering
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