How Might We Best Describe the Subsistence Strategies of Contemporary

question 53

Multiple Choice

How might we best describe the subsistence strategies of contemporary cultures?

• A) Most people today are food producers.
• B) Most people today are foragers, supplemented with small-scale animal husbandry.
• C) There is a roughly equal balance between foraging and food-producing cultures.
• D) Most people today are foragers.

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