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  Hunter-gatherer - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The reason was presumably and foremost an earlier usage of the term in Scandinavian countries, and secondly to signify a paleolithic economy since there are many holes in the ground making complex trap systems to catch elks, reindeer, etc. However, this usage is beginning to be replaced with gatherer.
The vast majority of hunter gatherer societies are nomadic.
sport hunting and sport fishing are recreational activities practiced by people who get the majority of their food by modern means (see also: fox hunt, safari)
open-encyclopedia.com /Hunter-gatherer   (478 words)

  
 Hunter-gatherer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In most cases these groups do not have a continuous history of hunting and gathering; in many cases their ancestors were farmers who were pushed into marginal areas as a result of migrations and wars.
The vast majority of hunter gatherer societies are (A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons) nomadic.
One way to divide hunter- gatherer groups is in their return systems.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hunter-gatherer.htm   (613 words)

  
 hunting and gathering society --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The resources of the sea and inlets and rivers were of astonishing variety, and some, like the salmon during their runs, were so easy to catch that the word “harvesting” seems more appropriate than “fishing” for...
Many anthropologists believe, though, that the educational practices of prehistoric times were probably like those of hunting and gathering societies of modern times.
Dogs were probably trained to hunt as early as Neolithic times and came to be bred for their specialized skills.
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 Articles - Hunter-gatherer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Typically, men hunt and women gather, but this is not a given.
At the 1966 "Man the Hunter" conference, anthropologists Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore suggested that egalitarianism was one of several central characteristics of nomadic hunting and gathering societies because mobility requires minimization of material possessions throughout a population; therefore, there was no surplus of resources to be accumulated by any single member.
It has recently been claimed that, in most cases, these groups do not have a continuous history of hunting and gathering, and that in many cases their ancestors were agriculturalists who were pushed into marginal areas as a result of migrations and wars.
www.cat-center.com /articles/Hunter-gatherer   (1404 words)

  
 Peaceful Societies
Gardner, Peter M. "The Paliyans." In Hunters and Gatherers Today: A Socioeconomic Study of Eleven Such Cultures in the Twentieth Century, edited by M. Bicchieri, 404-447.
Silberbauer, George B. "The G/wi Bushmen." In Hunters and Gatherers Today: A Socioeconomic Study of Eleven Such Cultures in the Twentieth Century, edited by M. Bicchieri, 271-326.
Sinha, D. "The Birhors." In Hunters and Gatherers Today: A Socioeconomic Study of Eleven Such Cultures in the Twentieth Century, edited by M. Bicchieri, 371-403.
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