Distinguish between the three major types of food production: horticulture, intensive agriculture, and pastoralism. Provide examples of modern cultures practicing each type of subsistence
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1, Description of a horticultural subsistence strategy, with specific example of Yanomamö, Samoans, or another society
2, Description of an intensive agricultural strategy, with examples from modern rural agricultural societies
3, Description of a pastoralist strategy, with example of the Saami, Basseri, or another contemporary society
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a. nonviolent resistance b. genocide c. ethnocide d. revolution
Which of the following is true about the modern hominins from Israel, one from Jebel Qafzeh and the other from Tab?n?
A. they place anatomically modern humans well back into the Neandertal time range B. they provide a good example of intrapopulation variability C. they were the largest concentration of a single hominin spe¬cies ever discovered D. they closely resemble the early modern humans found in Flores Island
Ethnohistorians are interested in __________
a. using historical documents rather than fieldwork to do anthropology b. constructing a global cultural world history based on the HRAF c. reconstructing and interpreting the history of indigenous peoples from their point of view d. creating a more scientific basis for the study of cultural histories
The Olmec culture represents one of the first possible civilizations in the New World
Indicate whether the statement is true or false