AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -hunter-gatherer, also called forager, any person who depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12, 000 to 11, 000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunter-gatherers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like honey, for food. Until approximately 12, 000 years ago, all humans practiced hunting-gathering.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hunter-gatherers has become the commonly-used term for people who depend largely on food collection or foraging for wild resources. Foraged wild resources are obtained by a variety of methods including gathering plants, collecting shellfish or other small fauna, hunting, scavenging, and fishing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Modern-day hunter-gatherers endure in various pockets around the globe. Among the more famous groups are the San, a.k.a. the Bushmen, of southern Africa and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, known to fiercely resist all contact with the outside world.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gatherers are people who gather or collect their food. They knew about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests, and collected roots, fruits, and other forest produce for their food. Hunting was also a major part of their food gathering activity.