Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer society is in anthropological terms one whose predominant method of subsistence involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild (or "foraging"), without significant recourse to the domestication of either. The demarcation between hunter-gatherers and other societies which rely on more managed techniques such as agriculturalism and pastoralism is not a clean one, as many societies typically utilise a range of strategies to obtain the foodstuffs required to sustain their community.

References

• {{note|Kelly}}{{Book reference | Author=Kelly, Robert L. | Title=The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways | Publisher=Washington: Smithsonian Institution | Year=1995 | ID=ISBN 1-56-098465-1 }}

Further reading

• {{Book reference | Author=Brody, Hugh | Title=The Other Side Of Eden: hunter-gatherers, farmers and the shaping of the world | Publisher=North Point Press | Year=2001 | ID=ISBN 0-57-120502-X }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Lee, Richard B. and Richard Daly, eds. | Title=The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers | Publisher=Cambridge University Press | Year=1999 | ID=ISBN 0-52-160919-4 }}