An important factor that brought changes to the hunter-gatherer way of life was that large prey animals were becoming extinct.
A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
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