Topic summary
Hunter-gatherers
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hunter-gatherer.
Habitat and population
Hunter-gatherers tends to have much greater home ranges than pre-industrial sedentary farmers. It has been estimated that pre-industrial English people living in small townships would have had a home range of 900 hectares (9 km), close to that predicted for an omnivorous mammal of their same body mass. Meanwhile, the !Kung San hunter-gatherers have a home range of 10,000 hectares (100 km), close to that predicted for a carnivorous mammal of their same body mass.