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Detailed explanation-1: -Paleolithic people often moved around in search of food. They were nomads (NOH • mads), or people who regularly move from place to place to survive. They traveled in groups, or bands, of about 20 or 30 members. Paleolithic people survived by hunting and gathering.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Hunter-gatherer societies are still found across the world, from the Inuit who hunt for walrus on the frozen ice of the Arctic, to the Ayoreo armadillo hunters of the dry South American Chaco, the Awá of Amazonia’s rainforests and the reindeer herders of Siberia. Today, however, their lives are in danger.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hunter-gatherer societies are characterized by non-hierarchical social structures, though this is not always the case.