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  2. Hunter-gatherer - Wikipedia

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    Pygmy hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin in August 2014. A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, [1] [2] that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat ...

  3. Original affluent society - Wikipedia

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    By foraging only for their immediate needs among plentiful resources, hunter-gatherers are able to increase the amount of leisure time available to them. Thus, despite living in what western society deems to be material poverty, hunter-gatherer societies work less than people practicing other modes of subsistence while still providing for all ...

  4. Subsistence pattern - Wikipedia

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    Foraging is the oldest subsistence pattern, with all human societies relying on it until approximately 10,000 years ago. [2] Foraging societies obtain the majority of their resources directly from the environment without cultivation. Also known as Hunter-gatherers, foragers may subsist through collecting wild plants, hunting, or fishing. [1]

  5. Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers

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    Hunting was once thought to belong to the domain of men. But new research finds women in foraging societies were often bringing home the bacon (and other prey, too).

  6. Nomad - Wikipedia

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    Today, they account for some 1% of the total. [30] At independence in 1960, Mauritania was essentially a nomadic society. The great Sahel droughts of the early 1970s caused massive problems in a country where 85% of its inhabitants were nomadic herders. Today only 15% remain nomads. [31]

  7. Adaptive strategies - Wikipedia

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    For example, there are clear similarities among societies that have a foraging (hunting and gathering) strategy. Cohen developed a typology of societies based on correlations between their economies and their social features. His typology includes these five adaptive strategies: foraging, horticulture, agriculture, pastoralism, and industrialism.

  8. Women held keys to land and wealth in Celtic Britain

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    The majority of societies today are patrilocal, meaning women move to their husband's communities. But some matrilocal communities exist today or in the recent past, including the Akans in Ghana ...

  9. ǃKung people - Wikipedia

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    This band level society used traditional methods of hunting and gathering for subsistence up until the 1970s. [3] Today, the great majority of ǃKung people live in the villages of Bantu pastoralists and European ranchers.