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    This document summarizes key features of different types of food-getting groups including hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, and intensive agriculturalists. Hunter-gatherers had the lowest population density and smallest community sizes, and were generally nomadic, while intensive agriculturalists had the highest population density and largest community sizes in permanent settlements. Food shortages were infrequent for hunter-gatherers and pastoralists but more common for horticulturalists and intensive agriculturalists. Trade, specialization, wealth differences, and political leadership increased from hunter-gatherers to intensive agriculturalists.

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    This document summarizes key features of different types of food-getting groups including hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, and intensive agriculturalists. Hunter-gatherers had the lowest population density and smallest community sizes, and were generally nomadic, while intensive agriculturalists had the highest population density and largest community sizes in permanent settlements. Food shortages were infrequent for hunter-gatherers and pastoralists but more common for horticulturalists and intensive agriculturalists. Trade, specialization, wealth differences, and political leadership increased from hunter-gatherers to intensive agriculturalists.

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    Variation in Food-Getting: A Summary of General Features in Recent Societies

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    Variation in Food-Getting: a summary of General Features in Recent Societies 1

    Food Collectors
    Hunter-Gatherers

    Food Producers
    Pastoralist

    Horticulturalists

    Intensive Agriculturalist

    Population density

    Lowest

    Low-moderate

    Low

    Highest

    Maximum community size

    Small

    Small-moderate

    Small

    Large(town and cities)

    Nomadism/permanence
    of settlements

    Generally nomadic
    seminomadic

    Food Shortages
    Infrequent

    or More sedentary:
    communities may move
    after several years
    Infrequent

    Generally
    nomadic
    seminomadic

    or Permanent communities

    Frequent

    Frequent

    Trade
    Minimal

    Minimal

    Very important

    Very important

    None

    None or few

    Some

    Many (high degree


    specialization)

    Generally minimal

    Moderate

    Considerable

    Full-time craft specialist


    Individual differences in
    wealth
    Generally none

    of

    craft

    Political leadership
    Informal

    Some part time political Part- and full-time political


    officials
    officials

    Ember, Carol and Ember Melvin. Anthropology 6th Ed. (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990) p. 256.

    Many full-time political officials

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