Did hunter-gatherers travel to the same land year after year or did they kind of go to wherever they happened?

Question

to find food?

Answer 1

they moved, constantly, but within an area not used by other hunter-gatherers

Answer 2

Most groups knew the region they lived in. That meant they knew what planets could be used, where they were and when they were ripe. Hunting of animals was the same. While they moved about, they also were fairly predicatble. When a certain food planet was ready to be picked, the band would show up.

They also had winter camps where they remained fixed for several months. They lived off the collected food resources and with Spring, broke up into small, family centered bands.

As bands got larger they would break up and there would be a move to new regions (both groups could share the old region and expand)

What didn't happen was the "Southward Ho!" of the Clovis First concept. This required bands to move 25 minles South each generation to reach the tip of South America by the date archelogical evidence showed. Most bands were very happy to stay in familar areas where they had friends of family.

Answer 3

2 words - superior genes

Answer 4

They did travel some of the same routes every year,usually between summer and winter hunting grounds following the same paths the animals they hunted migrated on.Some of the roads that we travel on today were built tracing the same routes these hunter gatherer tribes used.U.S 12 in Michigan was an old Indian trail to southern lake Michigan,which is now presant day Chicago,

Answer 5

Most probably had territories that they controlled and guarded like you see today in hunter gatherer tribes.  The territory was large enough that they could return after a few years to give the animals and edible plants time to recover.  How big it was, was determined by how productive the environment was and the population of the tribe.  If they just wandered, they would have trespassed on lands that others claimed.  How hard they defended them probably had to do with how populated they were.  If the resources were scarce as they would undoubtedly be from time to time, they would have to fight to protect it.  Some groups likely got pushed out and had to travel far to find greener pastures.