Which of the following statements about optimal foraging theory is true?
a. Foragers store food for a season only.
b. Foragers take only the plants and animals they need to subsidize their caloric intake.
c. Foragers seek out food sources based on whether they will be worth the effort.
d. Foragers no longer exist in the world; all peoples today use food production techniques.
e. Foragers very frequently exceed the carrying capacity of their environments.
Question 2
Which of these statements about ethnohistory is FALSE?
a. There are no hard and fast rules for evaluating the written accounts used in the research.
b. Ethnohistorians study nonliterate peoples.
c. One way to verify accuracy is to find accounts of an event written by different people.
d. Accounts of religious ceremonies and coming of age rituals are the most commonly studied.
Food dish
Prairie food web
The smell, sight, and taste of food, such as freshly baked bread, triggers the release of saliva
People in poor, urban areas often find themselves in “food deserts"
Psychodynamic Theory
Comparing a Food Chain and a Food Web