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history's original grocery shopper, walking miles so dinner couldn't run away from them
means A person who collects things, especially someone who forages wild plants, fruits, or other food found growing in nature.
from From the Old English verb 'gaderian,' meaning to bring together or unite, which is related to 'tōgædere' — the ancestor of our word 'together.' Add the agent suffix '-er' (one who does the thing) and you get the gatherer: literally one who togethers, pulling scattered things into a single heap. The same root quietly survives in 'gather' for sewing and even, possibly, in 'good' through the older sense of fitting together.
- calorie king
- Gathered plants fed early humans more than hunting did
- mostly women
- Often supplied the majority of a tribe's food
- walking pantry
- Foragers could identify hundreds of edible species
- still alive
- Hadza people still gather honey, tubers, and berries today
- brain food
- Tracking ripe plants demanded vast spatial memory
hadza people of tanzania — one of the last hunter-gatherer societies, ~1,300 people still practicing traditional foraging in lake eyasi region
aboriginal australians — maintained continuous hunter-gatherer culture for 65,000+ years across the continent until colonization