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A 5 page address of three specific questions relating to the hunter gatherer vs. pastoralist vs. farming subsistence patterns. No sources are listed.
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readings. What sort of cultural patterns dominate in complex societies? Intensive and industrial agriculture are
relatively new arrivals in terms of subsistence patterns. Where previously peoples farmed small family plots and harvested not one but many types of crops from those plots, intensive and
industrial agriculture is characterized by the large scale farming of monocultures such as corn and soybeans. Intensive and industrial agriculture has
resulted in a move away from our traditional family and societal structure, structure which was based on such factors as gender roles and intergroup interactions. Social structure and culture
are believed to evolve along with an evolution in agriculture and in this sense this is true. The so-called "Neolithic Revolution", however, is believed by some to have not
been a choreographed transition of hunter/gatherers to farmers and nomads to extensive cities. Despite arguments to the contrary, some researchers continue to envision a rapid transition. A more
detailed review of the archaeological record, however, appears to support the contention that the development of cities and complex sociopolitical structure did not necessarily go hand in hand with the
rise of agriculture either in Egypt or in other areas of the world. Indeed, even more recent examples of agricultural evolution
do not necessarily support an overnight revolution in social structure as a result that evolution. William Anderson, for example, reports that the social structure of the Cherokee people of
the Americas was based on loosely interrelated bands, bands delineated by factors such as geography, dialectical distinctions in language, interactions between the various bands of Cherokees and their respective neighbors,
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