While Studying the Yanomamö, Napoleon Chagnon Found That Soil Depletion

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Multiple Choice

While studying the Yanomamö, Napoleon Chagnon found that soil depletion was not the only reason these peoples moved their garden plots. His research found that:

• A) Major population movements of the Yanomamö were due to warfare and conflict with neighbors.
• B) The Yanomamö simply got tired of living in the same area and just packed up and left on a whim.
• C) The Yanomamö had developed a 25-year plan that detailed their moves from year to year.
• D) After about two to three years, poisonous snakes and alligators started to congregate in the garden plots because the vegetables attracted animals that snakes and alligators liked to eat.
• E) These cleared plots eventually became shallow ponds that could not be used as gardens.

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