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Hunter-Gatherer Societies

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Hunter-gatherer societies subsist by foraging wild plants and hunting animals, living in small mobile bands with little accumulated property.

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A band of thirty moves with the season, carrying what it owns and sharing the day's catch.

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Small and mobile does not mean simple — their ecological knowledge is vast and precise.