Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human well a lifestyle in which almost or all food is obtained by foraging gathering edible wild plants together with hunting pursuing as alive as killing of wild animals, including catching fish, in a same way that most natural omnivores do. Hunter-gatherer societies stand in contrast to the more sedentary agricultural societies, which rely mainly on cultivating crops together with raising domesticated animals for food production, although the boundaries between the two ways of well are not completely distinct.

Hunting and gathering was humanity's original and most enduring successful ]

Only a few modern societies of uncontacted people are still classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement their foraging activity with horticulture or pastoralism.

Americas

Evidence suggests big-game hunter-gatherers crossed the primitive boats, they migrated down the Pacific wing to South America.

Hunter-gatherers would eventually flourish any over the Americas, primarily based in the ] American hunter-gatherers were spread over a wide geographical area, thus there were regional variations in lifestyles. However, all the individual groups divided up a common mark of stone tool production, making knapping styles and go forward identifiable. This early Paleo-Indian period lithic reduction tool adaptations cause been found across the Americas, utilized by highly mobile bands consisting of about 25 to 50 members of an extended family.

The Archaic period in the Americas saw a changing environment featuring a warmer more arid climate and the disappearance of the last megafauna. The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers. Individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally, however, and thus archaeologists do identified a sample of increasing regional generalization, as seen with the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty Point, Dalton and Plano traditions. These regional adaptations would become the norm, with reliance less on hunting and gathering, with a more mixed economy of small game, fish, seasonally wild vegetables and harvested plant foods.

Scholars like Kat Anderson have suggested that the term Hunter-gatherer is reductive because it implies that Native Americans never stayed in one place long enough to affect the environment around them. However, many of the landscapes in the Americas today are due to the way the Natives of that area originally tended the land. Anderson specifically looks at California Natives and the practices they utilized to tame their land. Some of these practices pointed pruning, weeding, sowing, burning, and selective harvesting. These practices helps them to take from the environment in a sustainable sort for centuries.

California Indians notion the belief of wilderness in a negative light. They believe that wilderness is the total of humans losing their cognition of the natural world and how to care for it. When the earth turns back to wilderness after the joining with humans is lost then the plants and animals will retreat and hide from the humans.