Hunter-gatherer
Overview
A hunter-gatherer or forage society is one in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural
societies which rely mainly on domesticated
species. Hunting and gathering was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo
, and all modern humans
were hunter-gatherers until around 10,000 years ago.
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
societies which rely mainly on domesticated
Domestication
Domestication or taming is the process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control. In the Convention on Biological Diversity a domesticated species is defined as a 'species in which the evolutionary process has been...
species. Hunting and gathering was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo
Homo
Homo may refer to:*the Greek prefix ὅμο-, meaning "the same"*the Latin for man, human being*Homo, the taxonomical genus including modern humans...
, and all modern humans
Anatomically modern humans
The term anatomically modern humans in paleoanthropology refers to early individuals of Homo sapiens with an appearance consistent with the range of phenotypes in modern humans....
were hunter-gatherers until around 10,000 years ago.
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