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    Foraging: Types of Foraging Groups

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    For roughly 90% of human history, humans lived as foragers who used simple tools to gather wild foods through hunting, fishing, and gathering. Today, about 250,000 people still rely on foraging as their primary means of subsistence, typically living in marginal environments like deserts, Arctic regions, and tropical forests. Studying contemporary foraging societies helps anthropologists understand past cultures. Foragers generally make their own tools from local materials and are highly mobile as they follow resources seasonally or annually. Group size is small to avoid overusing environmental resources.

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    For roughly 90% of human history, humans lived as foragers who used simple tools to gather wild foods through hunting, fishing, and gathering. Today, about 250,000 people still rely on foraging as their primary means of subsistence, typically living in marginal environments like deserts, Arctic regions, and tropical forests. Studying contemporary foraging societies helps anthropologists understand past cultures. Foragers generally make their own tools from local materials and are highly mobile as they follow resources seasonally or annually. Group size is small to avoid overusing environmental resources.

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    For roughly 90% of human history, humans lived as foragers who used simple tools to gather wild foods through hunting, fishing, and gathering. Today, about 250,000 people still rely on foraging as their primary means of subsistence, typically living in marginal environments like deserts, Arctic regions, and tropical forests. Studying contemporary foraging societies helps anthropologists understand past cultures. Foragers generally make their own tools from local materials and are highly mobile as they follow resources seasonally or annually. Group size is small to avoid overusing environmental resources.

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    Foraging

    For roughly 90% of history, humans were foragers who used simple technology to


    gather, fish, and hunt wild food resources. Today only about a quarter million people
    living in marginal environments, e.g., deserts, the Arctic and topical forests, forage as
    their primary subsistence strategy. While studying foraging societies allows
    anthropologists to understand their cultures in their own right, the data from these
    studies provides us with an avenue to understanding past cultures

    common characteristics among foragers:

     Foragers generally make their own tools using materials available in the local
    environment, however, through the process of development and increasing
    contact with other groups of people, machine made tools are making their way into
    foraging societies.
     There is a high degree of mobility as the group may follow migrating herds or
    seasonally available resources.
     Group size and population density is small so as not to surpass the carrying
    capacity of the environment.
     Resource use is extensive and temporary. In other words, foragers may use a
    wide-variety of resources over a large territory; however, they leave enough
    resources so that the area can regenerate. Once the resources reach a certain
    level, the group moves on.
     Permanent settlements are rare.
     Production is for personal use or to share and trade.
     The division of labor tends to be divided by age and gender.
     Kin relations are usually reckoned on both the mother and father’s side.
     There is usually no concept of personal ownership, particularly of land.
     If left to follow traditional patterns, foraging as a subsistence strategy is highly
    sustainable.
    Types of foraging groups:

     Aquatic: Aquatic foragers, like the Ou Haadas, or the Haida, who live in the
    Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, and Prince of Wales Island
    in Alaska, United States, rely primarily on resources from water. At the time of
    contact with Europeans, the Haidu utilized a wide variety of foods from the
    surrounding waters, including salmon, halibut, crabs, scallops, sea cucumber,
    sea lion, otters, and seaweed. They also hunted for land mammals like bear and
    deer and gathered wild plants such as rhubarb, fern, and berries.
     Pedestrian: As the name implies, pedestrian foragers get their food by collecting
    on foot. The !Kung San are more properly known as the Zhu|õasi. They live in
    the Kalahari desert are one example of a pedestrian foraging group. The Zhu|
    õasi use about 100 species of animals and over 150 species of plants, although
    not all are used for food. The primary food source is the mongongo nut that is
    high in protein. The Zhu|õasi eat their way out of areas, starting with their favorite
    food and then the less desirable food. Once the resources get low, the group will
    move to a new area. The Zhu|õasi also move seasonally as resources become
    available. During the rainy season, the Zhu|õasi live in small groups of 2-3
    families. In the dry season, large camps of 20-40 people are established near
    permanent water sources.
     Equestrian: Equestrian foragers are the most rare type of foraging group, being
    identified only the Great Plains of North America and the pampas and steppes of
    South America. This type of foraging strategy emerged after contact with
    European settlers who reintroduced the horse to the Americas. The Aonikenks
    live on the Patagonian Steppes of South America. The Aonikenks, also called the
    Tehuelche or people of the south, hunted guanaco, an indigenous camelid, in
    seasonal rounds. They also ate rhea (sometimes referred to as the South
    American ostrich), roots, and seeds.

    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/foraging/

    Hunter-gatherer societies or the foragers are still found across the world, from the Inuit
    who hunt for walrus on the frozen ice of the Arctic, to the Ayoreo armadillo hunters of
    the dry South American Chaco, the Awá of Amazonia’s rainforests and the reindeer
    herders of Siberia.
    Today, however, their lives are in danger. The issues they are forced to cope with on a
    daily basis have nothing to do with their innate strength and resourcefulness as a
    people, but stem from oppressive external threats to their lands, health and ways of life.
    Here are some examples of who were the foragers:

    Guardians of the world's rainforests The Nenets of Siberia Fishermen of Amazonia

    and etc.
    The Ashaninka Tribal Olympians
    andhttps://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/hunters

    We know about hunter-gatherers of recent times from anthropologists who have lived and worked with
    hunting and gathering groups. Some of the best recently known cases are the Mbuti of the Ituri Forest
    (central Africa), the San of the Kalahari Desert (southern Africa) and the Copper Inuit of the Arctic (North
    America). These hunter-gatherers live in environments that are not conducive to agriculture.

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