Subsistence

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• Aché
• Agriculture
• Boserup
• Broad spectrum diet
• Built environment
• Calusa (cultural group)
• Carrying capacity
• Commodity chain
• Delayed return system
• Domestic economy
• Egalitarian social structure
• Farming
• Foodways
• Foraging
• Historical ecology
• Horticulture
• Immediate return system
• Intercropping
• Kalahari Desert
• !Kung (cultural group)
• Kwakwaka’wakw (cultural group)
• Large-scale agricultural communities
• Maasai (cultural group)
• Malthus
• Modes of subsistence
• Mono-cropping
• Multi-cropping
• Neolithic Revolution
• Pastoralism
• Potlatch
• Sahlins
• Shifting cultivation
• Staple crops
• Subsistence system
• “Three sisters” (crops) Typical population density for a group of foragers
• World system
• Yams