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| A form of food production that requies intensive working of the land with plows and draft animals and the use of techniques of soil and water control. |
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- Live in one of the most inhabitable regions of the world.
- Live in delicate balance with the enviroment.
- Number of strategies to deal with their environemnt.
- Under constant ecological pressure
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- Simplest form of farming
- Uses basic hand tools
- Generally absent; plows, animal power, irrigation, fertilizers.
- Relatively low crop yields
- Often practice mixed strategies
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- Totally dependent on H&G
- Strong division of labor
- Most important food item: Mongongo nut
- Demographics not that different from industrialized societies
- Almost never face starvation
- Relatively low investment of energy ( 12-19 hours a week)
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- Generally found in regions unsuited for agriculture
- Not a single unified food-getting strategy
- Wide variation in ways animals are herded
- Pure pastoralism either rare or nonexistent
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| Theoreical limit to which a population may grow and maintain itself without deleterious effects on its environment. (How much for you can get is based on how much energy you put into it) |
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| The profound culture change beginning about 10,000 years ago associated with the early domestication of plants and animals and settlement in permanent villages; sometimes referred to as the Neolithic transition. |
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