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.
A
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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A. the influence of language on thought B. the interaction of thought and surface structure C. the influence of deep structure on semantic domains D. the influence of culture on language E. the influence of deep structure on surface structure