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Hunter-Gatherer
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Hunter-Gatherer
A stage in man’s social evolution preceding the farmer stage. The hunter-gatherer society’s subsistence methods involved the gathering/foraging of edible plants, which provided up to 80% of their food needs, and hunting animals from the wild, which provided the remainder, without recourse to the domestication of plants or animals


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From hunting and gathering to our communal relations, our emotional connection to ourselves and our world has sustained us.
In hunting and gathering and traditional societies, infants are cared for mostly by older siblings, aunts, grandmothers, fathers and male cousins," she added.
They survived the Soviet era when they were forced onto collective farms and their children were made to study Russian in a bid to modernise their ancient culture of fishing, hunting and gathering.
 
 
 
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