Until the development of farming practices, hunting and foraging for food was the means by which all humans survived.  Hunter gatherer communities still survive in many parts of the world today.

 

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Image: Hunters and Gatherers by Charles Roffey

Author:  Peter Littlewood

First written: 1993

Last updated: December 2020

Infomation sourced from: 

Resurgence and Ecologist, Reforming the Common Agriculture Policy [online] Available from: https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article477-reforming-the-common-agricultural-policy.html [accessed 30/06/2015].

Survival International Hunters Gallery [online] Available from: https://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/hunters [accessed 2/12/20]

The Conversation, (August 2019) Modern hunter gatherer children could tell us how human culture evolved and inspire new ways of teaching by Gul Deniz Salali [online] Available from: https://theconversation.com/modern-hunter-gatherer-children-could-tell-us-how-human-culture-evolved-and-inspire-new-ways-of-teaching-122241 [Accessed 2/12/20]

 

 

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