Despite Differences Arising from Environmental Variation, All Foraging Economies Have

question 1

Multiple Choice

Despite differences arising from environmental variation, all foraging economies have shared one essential feature:

• A) their willingness to test out new food-producing technologies to see if they are any better than what they are used to.
• B) their reliance on welfare supplied by state-level societies.
• C) their reliance on available natural resources for their subsistence, rather than controlling the reproduction of plants and animals.
• D) their interest in developing irrigation technologies to control sources of water.
• E) their emphasis on devising new forms of organic pesticides.

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