Why Do Anthropologists Question the Idea That Present-Day Foragers Can

question 45

Multiple Choice

Why do anthropologists question the idea that present-day foragers can be compared to Paleolithic foragers?

• A) There are no present-day foragers.
• B) The types of foraging vary so widely that few generalizations can be drawn.
• C) Present-day foragers have been in contact with food-producing and industrialized societies for long periods of time and all live within nation-states that inevitably affect their livelihood.
• D) Paleolithic foragers were pre-linguistic.
• E) Paleolithic foragers were not Homo sapiens.

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