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Chapter 6 1. There are several basic differences between foragers and food producers. First groups show strong dependency on environment. They hunted, gathered nutritive plants, insects and other. Such communities easily moved from one place to another because of season or other circumstances. Because of mobility foragers didn’t have goal to accumulate valuables. Members of communities had equal access to sources. Food producers had different behavior. These people also depended on environmental factors, like access to water. But they didn’t use only nature’s benefits. Food producers developed them for own good. They cultivated land, planted crops and domesticated animals. Depending on group's type food producers used more complicated instruments, created more surpluses and had different social structures. Foraging and agriculture. Foragers used only what they gathered or hunted. But still such societies spent near 42 hours per week for “foraging for food, making and repairing tools, and food preparation and other household maintenance” (“Chapter 6”, n. d., p. 11). In agricultural societies people needed to prepare land, control weed, care about animals and do other work. But technical development helped to replace manual labor with mechanisms in many cases. People spent less time to do more work. But, compared to foragers, agricultural societies needed more time and efforts, because they wanted to produce more food and other goods. 2. Both Ju′hoansi (Dobe) and Zuni depended on water sources. These societies also used simple instruments. Those are only basic similarities. Dobe had straight division of labor. Men hunted for meat and women gathered other products, like plants, nuts and roots. All Zuni’s people, including children, were involved in