Generally speaking, a civilization whose impact can be felt on history for a very long time can be called a "lasting civilization", since the things they put into effect have "lasted" throughout the years.
One of the aspects of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was that those are/were roughly egalitarian societies, with little social order and relative gender equality - the opposite is the case in case of the the settlers.
Also, hunter-gatherers have less seasonal lifestyles than the settled agrarian people, who would often perform actions almost a year before they could claim any benefits from them.
It brought the end of the Cold War one step closer
