The anthropologist Dee Mack Williams, in studying herding practices among pastoralists in Inner Mongolia, found that
A) with the use of irrigation to create new pasture land, the sand dunes were disappearing.
B) the herders always avoided sand dunes when herding their flocks, because sand dunes did not provide pasture.
C) since his observations were made in a specific local environment, the conclusions were not useful to other scholars concerned with livestock production.
D) the herders valued sand dunes as shelters when attacked by raiders.
E) the herders valued the sand dunes in their environment because, among other things, the dunes helped to regulate the body temperature of their animals.
E
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