Chapter 12: Origins of Food Production and Settled Life

earliest evidence of domesticated dogs comes from a site in northern isreal dated to about ________ years ago

12,000

cities first appeared in the near east about

3500 BC

domestication in africa is dated to around

6000 BC

the shift to food production is called the _________ by V. Gordon Childe

Neolithic revolution

toward the end of the upper paleolithic period, people got most of their food from

hunting

animals were first domesticated in

mesoamerica

most of the evidence given for the hypothesis that sedentary people have larger populations than nomadic people comes from a study of the

!Kung

the ______ think that dogs domesticated themselves

embers

the sequence of food acquisition was

collecting to hunting to agriculture

a consequence of the rise in food production include

declining health

archaeologists speak of domestication only when there is evidence that plants and animals show a ________ wild plants and animals

difference from

in ali kosh in southwester iran after about 5500 BC, __________ were two important innovations

irrigation and the use of domesticated cattle

settled life is called

sedentarism

natufians were

sedentary

the natufians had tools, like sickles, which allowed them

to harvest wild grain intensively

the first clear indication of a changeover to food production took place in the near east about

8,000 B.C.

tools found at natufian sites suggest they harvested _______ intensively

wild grain

unlike natufians, there was _____ evidence of social differences among the archaic peoples of the mesoamericas

no

the population of the world seems to have increased dramatically around the world as a result of

people settling down

which is not put forth as a possible reason fro broad-spectrum collecting

population growth

a theory to explain why food production eventually developed is

all of the above

dogs were the first animals domesticated, about 15,00 years ago. why?

all of the above

food production developed because of

all of the above

the rise of food production led to

all of the above

Evidence of increased long distance trade comes from villages established

after the rise of food production

evidence of textile making and painted pottery comes from villages established

after the rise of food production

at present, archaeologists define the neolithic in terms of the presence of

domesticated plants and animals

most archaeologists believe that the ________ was one of the earliest centers of plant and animal domestication

fertile crescent

among archaic people of mesoamerica, ________ were located near seasonally abundant resources

macrobands

archaeologists study what ancient peoples ate by

all of the above

as humans began to domesticate plants, these plants became different than the wild varieties. why?

because the process of artificial or human selection

we know there was a different pattern of domestication in mesoamerica which consisted of

both a and c are correct

the increased use of stationary food sources during the epipaleolithic explains in part why people in the near east began to

lead more sedentary lives

the evidence available shows that the archaic people of highland mesoamerica were different than the natufians in that

there were no social differences in highland mesoamerica