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I think it varied quite a lot depending on the location and the time. We're talking really hard to comprehend lengths of pre-historic time. Like 300,000 years of what we consider a modern human.

And the differences between hunting and gathering, and agriculture as @xj9@hexbear.net says are not as clear cut. Many "Hunter-Gatherer" societies might be moving between semi-permanent seasonal camps (sometimes leaving behind structures and dwellings) where they had planted different crops along the routes and at the places, so they could change with the climate and animal migration

Other permanent "agricultural" settlements, might have been permanent communities with crops growing, livestock etc, but also significant portions of their population going on hunting trips that might take weeks or pasturing livestock in different regions. And almost certainly some amount of foraging local areas. We know even medieval peasants still did that.

At any rates both might have had periods of peace and abundance, versus scarcity and extreme violence. There's probably some hunter-gatherers whose lives were like the garden of Eden, others who it was like The Road. Likewise there's probably farming communites who were like "we've cracked the code free food forever" and others a constant life of paranoia peering over your hill fort's walls incase a neighboring tribes is going to attack, loot your granary and kill you.