ANTH 201 Midterm: Test 4 Review
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Subsistence strategy: way of providing sustenance or food. Foragers: getting or collecting wild resources (plants/game); collecting not producing; humans have used foraging for all sustenance up to 10,000 years ago. Examples: inuit arctic, mbuti tropical forest, hadza arid climate. They typically live in marginal environments that are difficult to find food in (arctic, desert, tropical forest, etc) For most of our existence foragers probably lived all over the world: no foragers in europe today or most of north america and asia. Example: ju/"hoansi: anthropologist richard lee went to the calipari desert in southern africa and lived with them and studied them, discovered that hunting only accounted for 30% of diet and gathering amounted to. Common attributes of foragers: low population density - 0. 005 people/square mile (b/cs has 750 people/sq. mile; Nyc has 10,000 people/sq. mile: pedestrian nomads no villages or permanent housing, few material goods and no private property because they have to carry everything that they own.
