In which food production system does part of the group's population accompany the herds to distant pastures and the remaining population maintain year-round villages and grow crops?

A. pastoral nomadic
B. mixed specialization
C. modified foraging
D. intensive agriculturalist
E. transhumance


Answer: E

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