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hunter-gatherer communities lived by searching out food and other things they needed rather than growing or manufacturing them |
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the era of hunter-gatherers ended about ten thousand years ago with the appearance of the first agricultural societies |
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all hunter-gatherers lived during what is called the 'Palaeolithic Era', which means the era of 'Old Stone Age' |
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many gathered the resources they needed for food, for shelter and clothing, and for ritual activities and other purposes |
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scholars usually study the physical remains from hunter-gatherer communities in the absence of written evidence |