The social organization of the El Riego phase is characteristic of the Early Archaic period in Mesoamerica; hunter gatherer societies with established seasonal camps.

According to Friedrich Engels he argued that in hunter gatherer societies the activities of men and women, although different, had the same importance.

People who do not think this is a good way of eating have argued that if hunter gatherer societies did not suffer from certain diseases, this was because they ate food with fewer calories, or for other reasons.

First appearing in the groupings of early hunter gatherer societies.

In 2003, the Society for Visual Anthropology bestowed on Marshall a lifetime achievement award for his work among the hunter gatherer society.

In the beginning these early humans had little impact on the environment because they were primarily hunter gatherer societies that moved from location to location allowing previously inhabited locations to be reclaimed by nature.

Prehistoric archeological artifacts dating to the fourth and third millenniums and belonging to hunter and gatherer societies of coastal New York have been found at the site.

The Djargurd Wurrung people are the traditional aboriginal people of the Camperdown area, who had lived in the area for thousands of years as a semi-nomadic hunter gatherer society.

He argues that the leading cause of death among hunter gatherer societies is murder.

Based on the size of extant hunter gatherer societies, recent paleolithic hominids lived in bands of a few hundred individuals.