"Foraging", Sometimes Called "Hunting and Gathering", Was the Dominant Pattern

question 33

Multiple Choice

"Foraging", sometimes called "hunting and gathering", was the dominant pattern of human history for the longest period, several hundred thousand years, but it is also:

• A) Thought to have accelerated soil erosion and led to the extinction of animals who relied on pasturage land
• B) The least documented, forcing a reliance on comparative evidence provided by anthropologists for recent centuries
• C) The period during which hominins made the greatest strides toward perfecting the design and efficacy of their tools
• D) The period during which women began to emerge as the dominant figures in clan society, due to their power of giving birth

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