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Hunting and gathering societies

Human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)

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Images referencing Hunting and gathering societies

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  • Sarawak: a Kenyah hunter with blowpipe and dead animal. Photograph.

Works from the collections

7 works

    • Books

    Paleofantasy : what evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live / Marlene Zuk.

    | Marlene Zuk | Date: [2013]
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    After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC / Steven Mithen.

    | Steven Mithen | Date: 2004
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    Prehistoric stress in Australian aborigines : a palaeopathological study of a hunter-gatherer population / Stephen Webb.

    | Webb, Stephen | Date: 1989
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    Foraging and farming : the evolution of plant exploitation / edited by David R. Harris and Gordon C. Hillman.

    | Date: 1989
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    Health and the hunter-gatherer : biomedical studies on the hunting and gathering populations of Southern Africa / G.T. Nurse and T. Jenkins.

    | George T. Nurse | Date: 1977
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