Hunter-gatherer

Examples of Hunter-gatherer in the following topics:

• The Neolithic Revolution

  • During this time, humans lived in small groups as hunter-gatherers, with clear gender divisions for labor.
  • The men hunted animals while the women gathered food, such as fruit, nuts and berries, from the local area.
  • This transition everywhere is associated with the change from a largely nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to a more settled, agrarian-based one, due to the inception of the domestication of various plant and animal species—depending on the species locally available, and probably also influenced by local culture.
  • The Demographic theories proposed by Carl Sauer and adapted by Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery posit that an increasingly sedentary population outgrew the resources in the local environment and required more food than could be gathered.
  • Neolithic populations generally had poorer nutrition, shorter life expectancies, and a more labor-intensive lifestyle than hunter-gatherers.

• Namibia

  • The San were hunters and gatherers with a nomadic lifestyle.
  • Until about 2,000 years ago, the original hunters and gatherers of the San people were the only inhabitants in Namibia but around the time, the Nama (also known as Namaqua), the Khoikhoi, and the Hottentots settled around the Orange River in the south on the border between Namibia and South Africa where they kept herds of sheep and goats.

• The Maya People

  • It appears that around this time the Maya people began to transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a culture based around agricultural villages.
  • Analysis of bones from early Maya grave sites indicate that, although maize had already become a major component of the diet by this time, fish, meat from game animals, and other hunted or gathered foods still made up a major component of the diet.

• The Bantu Migration

  • Before the expansion of farming and pastoralist African peoples, Southern Africa was populated by hunter-gatherers and earlier pastoralists.

• Historical Bias

  • Other cultures were identified as having reached a stage that Europe itself had already passed: primitive hunter-gatherer, farming, early civilization, feudalism and modern liberal-capitalism.

• Religion Under the Tang Dynasty

  • Funerary practices included providing the deceased with everything they might need in the afterlife, including animals, servants, entertainers, hunters, homes, and officials.
  • Buddhist monasteries played an integral role in Chinese society, offering lodging for travelers in remote areas, schools for children throughout the country, and a place for urban literati to stage social events and gatherings such as going-away parties.

• The Formation of Russia

  • His son, Vasili III, continued in his footsteps marking an era known as the "Gathering of the Russian Lands."
  • Between the two leaders, what would become known as the “Gathering of the Russian Lands” would occur and begin a new era of Russian history after the Mongol Empire’s Golden Horde.
  • The other major political change that Ivan III instigated was a major consolidation of power in the northern principalities, often called the  "Gathering of the Russian Lands.”

• The Manor System

  • "Digging", detail from the Hunterian Psalter, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter.

• Spread of Islam

  • The people of the Islamic world created numerous sophisticated centers of culture and science with far-reaching mercantile networks, travelers, scientists, hunters, mathematicians, doctors and philosophers, all contributing to the Golden Age of Islam.

• Expansion Throughout Central and Western Asia

  • According to Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvayni, a group of hunters caught Küchlüg in 1218 and handed him over to the Mongols, who promptly beheaded him.