alleryA hunter-gatherer community usually had about how many people?
AA few thousand
BA few dozen
COver a million
DJust two or three
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. A few dozen
1. Recall the idea: Lead section.
2. The source says: "usually a tribe of only a few dozen people".
3. A few dozen is correct. Mobile foraging could not support large crowds; two or three is too small a group.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Hunter-gatherer" (rev 1379623607), section "Lead section"_
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