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hunter-gatherer

human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)
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Summary

hunter-gatherer is a classification of societies[1]. hunter-gatherer draws 8,244 Wikipedia views per month (classification of societies category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: hunting[3], gathering[4]
  • Instance of: class of human[5]
  • Subclass of: way of life[6]
  • Part of: primitive tribal community[7]
  • Commons category: Hunter-gatherers[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hunter-gatherers[9]
  • Partially coincident with: hunter[10], gatherer[11]
  • Different from: Jäger & Sammler[12]
  • Female form of label: lovka-nabiralka[13]

Why It Matters

hunter-gatherer has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] hunter-gatherer is known by 127 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 68
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et',
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