Foraging society
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A pre-agrarian economy based upon scavenging, hunting, and gathering resources. Such life styles tend to be very high-stress and unstable[Citation Needed]; as such, societies that utilize that sort of economy tend to be very small and primitive. Foragers must move frequently in order to find new resources; as such, they are unable to develop the things necessary for any sort of civilization: architecture, literacy, organized religion, etc.