Exam 6: Getting Food

Imagine a global crisis that wiped out mechanized agriculture across the world. If your society were forced to return to a more localized subsistence strategy, what would be most appropriate for your environment? Explain your answer.

By "food collection," anthropologists mean the obtaining of food from __________.

Individual families in pastoral societies are most likely to own __________.

Beginning about __________ years ago, people in some regions began to depend less on big game and more on relatively stationary food resources such as fish, small game, and wild plants.

Using the anthropological definition, which of the following is an example of horticulture?

Why should we not assume that food collectors would automatically switch to food production once they understood the process of domestication?

Although food production is not necessarily __________ than food collection, it is generally __________ per unit of land.

Studies of two aboriginal Australian groups and one African foraging group suggest that foraging societies spend __________ time getting food than most agricultural societies.

What form of horticulture involves working the land for a short time, then leaving it idle for a few years?

Societies that engage in pastoralism are characterized by __________.

In what activity do Yanomamö participate as part of their subsistence strategy?

Which of the following animals are least likely to be a source of food in a horticultural society?

What herding system allows animals to roam over a large area and requires little surveillance?

Compare the Binford-Flannery model with the research of Mark Cohen concerning the origins of food production by around 10,000 years ago. What evidence is required to support each of these theories?

In what region do we see the very first evidence of a changeover to food production, dating to around 8000 B.C.?

On what factors is the division of labor based in most foraging societies?

In which of these environments would you be least likely to find a pastoralist society?

In which areas is intensive agriculture unlikely to supplant horticulture?

Some believe that food production was adopted across the world within a span of only a few thousand years due to worldwide population pressure. With whose research does this position best align?

What do Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery suggest must have influenced the changeover to food production?