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What role has food played in the evolutionary history of the hominin? |
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Why did anthropologists persist in stressing the importance of hunting over gathering? |
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What are the main subsistence patterns found in human societies? |
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Why is it important to consider foraging a significant subsistence activity? |
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What are two theories that explain the transition from collecting food to producing food? |
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What are the three basic subsistence patterns within the food-producing category? How do they differ from one another? |
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What other cultural characteristics of a society might we infer from knowing that society's subsistence pattern? |
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Is there in some way more value in some subsistence patterns than in others? |
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What are some negative aspects of food production? |
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How are some basic categories of economic behavior related to subsistence? |