Why Are Anthropologists Cautious About Using Contemporary Foragers as Ethnographic

question 24

Multiple Choice

Why are anthropologists cautious about using contemporary foragers as ethnographic analogies for our earliest ancestors?

• A) they currently subsist in the most marginal geographic regions
• B) they all use technology that our earliest ancestors would not have had
• C) they did not exist at the time of our ancestors
• D) they have evolved too far from the earliest origins

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