Subsistence Strategy Simulator

Subsistence Strategy Simulator Production Intensity FORAGING Work Hours 15 hrs Food Surplus None Mobility High Equality High Move the slider to see how human societies transition from gathering wild resources to intensive agriculture. Subsistence Strategy Simulator lets you explore this hands-on instead of only reading about it.

Explores how societies organize production, exchange, and consumption across different cultural contexts. It focuses on Modes of Subsistence, Pastoralism, Horticulture, Exchange and Value, Modes of Production from the “Work, Life, and Value: Economic Anthropology” section.

The “Production Intensity” slider change the key inputs. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of humanity across time and space. It explores the four primary subfields—cultural, biological, archaeological, and linguist… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Work, Life, and Value: Economic Anthropology” section. Open the full Anthropology course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/anthropology-a4bd31d3-9ba4-46c3-8304-912d8aac0a6c for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Modes of Subsistence, Pastoralism, Horticulture, Exchange and Value, Modes of Production — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on Anthropology alone.