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The difference between simple foragers and complex foragers :

  • A.Complex foragers focus on a few highly productive resources
  • B.Complex foragers rely on many different food sources
  • C.Complex foragers are highly mobile
  • D.Complex foragers employ irrigation technology

Answer: A

The difference is that complex foragers focus on a few highly productive resources.

Complex foragers, such as the peoples of the North American north-west coast with their salmon runs, concentrate on a few abundant, predictable resources that can be harvested in bulk and stored. Storage lets them live in large permanent villages, accumulate wealth and develop social ranking without farming.

Relying on many different food sources and moving often are the marks of simple foragers, so options B and C describe the wrong group. Irrigation is a technology of agriculture, which complex foragers by definition do not practise.

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