Russians (hope this helps)
To protect them from being recognized.
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.
I believe you are talking about the old kingdom or also known as the ancient world.
