Within small hunter-gatherer groups it can often be possible to have a chieftain or headman in position of power over the other members.

He further suggested the site had been frequented by hunter-gatherer groups forming temporary camps and developed into a village during the early neolithic period.

Haplogroup A is found at low frequencies in parts of Africa, but is common among certain hunter-gatherer groups.

Some hunter-gatherer groups have been characterized as largely egalitarian.

The people living in the south and southwest were mostly San and hunter-gatherer groups, whose technology involved only minimal use of metal technologies.

This led to the displacement of the hunter-gatherer groups in the east and southeast.

Also, much has been made about the large number of "primitive" hunter-gatherer groups that inhabit the Congo, especially the Pygmy population.

One way to divide hunter-gatherer groups is by their return systems.

Her work in these areas has been directed to resolving the economies and political evolutionary trajectories of complex hunter-gatherer groups.

Today we know that cave images offer almost intimate access to the lifestyle prevailing during the prehistory of the hunter-gatherer groups.