Context: At the 1966 "Man the Hunter" conference, anthropologists Richard Borshay Lee and Irven DeVore suggested that egalitarianism was one of several central characteristics of nomadic hunting and gathering societies because mobility requires minimization of material possessions throughout a population. Therefore, no surplus of resources can be accumulated by any single member. Other characteristics Lee and DeVore proposed were flux in territorial boundaries as well as in demographic composition.

Question: At what conference did Richard Borshay speak?
Answer: Man the Hunter

Question: When was the Man the Hunter conference?
Answer: 1966

Question: Why is there a lessening of material possessions in hunting and gathering groups?
Answer: mobility

Question: What can decreased material possessions produce in a hunter-gatherer society?
Answer: egalitarianism

Question: What other characteristic is variable for these groups?
Answer: territorial boundaries

Question: A surplus of resources can be accumulated by any member in which societies?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which 1966 conference did geologists Richard Borshay Lee and Irven DeVore attend?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The sedentary life of nomadic hunting and gathering societies required what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: At the 1973 "Man the Hunter" conference egalitarianism was suggested as what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Other characteristics proposed by Lee and DeVore were stability in territorial boundaries and what?
Answer: Unanswerable