ANT Week 5 Quiz 5

Most of the evidence given for the hypothesis that sedentary people have larger populations than nomadic people come from the study of the _____.

!Kung

Most archaeologists believe the _____ was one of the earliest centers of plant and animal domestication.

Fertile Crescent

The first population to practice broad spectrum food collecting and experience a social differentiation in the access to economic resources, power, and prestige within their society was the _____.

Natufians.

A negative result of the development of states is _____. the use of force to govern class stratification health issues due to large populations all of these.

all of these

The rise of food production led to ______.

all of the above

At present, archaeologists define the Neolithic in terms of the presence of _____.

domesticated plants and animals

In pictoglyphic writing systems such as Cuneiform and heiroglyphics, a _____ is a single symbol used to represent a single object, whereas a _____ is a single symbol used to convey a complex idea.

logogram, ideogram

True or False: In eastern North America, sunflower, sumpweed, and goosefoot were domesticated before corn.

true

Of abortion, birth control, carrying of children, feeding children, infanticide, and low ratio of body fat to body weight, what may have caused the differential spacing of births between nomads versus settled peoples?

carrying children, feeding children, body fat

In Egypt and Mesoamerica, the best examples of monumental architecture are _____.

ziggurats