Which Statement Correctly Describes Hunting and Gathering

question 81

Multiple Choice

Which statement correctly describes hunting and gathering?

• A) All humans began to obtain their food this way after agriculture was invented.
• B) It is a form of nomadism that disappeared in the late 1900s after the fall of the Soviet Union.
• C) This form of subsistence disappeared in the mid-1900s owing to industrialization and modernized agriculture.
• D) Hunter gatherers cannot live for long in groups of less than 100 people owing to the necessary division of labor.
• E) This form of subsistence is still practiced despite the modernization of agriculture in some areas.

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