A hunter-gatherer is a person who lives in a society that obtains food primarily by hunting wild animals and gathering edible plants, such as nuts, fruits, and roots, from their natural environment rather than through farming or animal domestication. This lifestyle, which characterized human societies for most of prehistoric times, involved nomadic or semi-nomadic movement to access diverse food sources. Hunter-gatherers often lived in small groups, shared resources, and had social structures that emphasized cooperation and equality. Although agriculture largely replaced this way of life about 12,000 years ago, some hunter-gatherer societies still exist today in remote areas.
