Hunter-gatherer


[huhn-ter-gath -er-er] /ˈhʌn tərˈgæð ər ər/

noun, Anthropology.
1.
a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
adjective
1.
(of a society, lifestyle, etc) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence
noun
2.
a member of such a society

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