hunter-gatherer

English

hunter-gatherer (plural hunter-gatherers)

A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
  He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

person whose main food source is hunting and gathering

Chinese:
Mandarin: 狩獵採集者, 狩猎采集者 (shòuliè cǎijí zhě), 狩獵採集民, 狩猎采集民 (shòuliè cǎijí mín)
Finnish: metsästäjä-keräilijä (fi)
French: chasseur-cueilleur (fr) m
German: ^{(please verify)} Jäger und Sammler m pl

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