Chapter 9 - The Neolithic Revolution

Natufian subsistence is associated with all of the following:

1. Use of sickles 2. Burning to promote animal grazing 3. Use of grinding stones for seed 4. Storage of wild seeds

TUE OR FAMsE: The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, began approximately 14,000 years ago

FAMsE

Which of the following tools is most associated with the Mesolithic?

Microlith

Which time period is characterized as a transition from foraging to an economy based on food production?

Neolithic

TUE OR FAMsE: A large proportion of most sedentary prehistoric populations undergoing intensive agricultural development suffered chronic and life-threatening malnutrition and disease

TUE

There are various correlations between human biology and domestication. What are they?

1. Fertility tends to increase with increase dependence on farming 2. Overall health and wellness tend to increase with dependence on farming 3. Breastfeeding tends to decrease with increased dependence on farming 4. Sedentary lifestyles lead to increased infant mortality rates

Domestication and food production is associated with many cultural changes. What is commonly associated with the transition from foraging to food production:

1. Increase in number of work hours 2. Decrease in species diversity in the food supply 3. Increase in amount of human attention to food 4. Increase in need to manage land

Glaciers melted and the sea levels rose

About 12,000 years ago, what environmental changes created a shift in food production?

The use of intensive crop cultivation, employing plows, fertilizers, and/or irrigation is called

Agriculture

Brian Hare argues that the initial domestication of dogs is most likely that..

Dogs domesticated themselves to humans because of the attraction to human living sites

Which is a term applied to an evolutionary process whereby humans modify the genetic makeup of a population of plants or animals?

Domestication ur AH-MAZING

TUE OR FAMsE: Skeletal features provide clear evidence, even though there was occasional famine, that overall Neolithic people were healthier than their Paleolithic relatives

FAMsE

Increased dependence on farming is associated with..

Increased fertility across human populations

About 12,000 years ago, climatic conditions changed, resulting in new forests, more plant food, and abundant sources of fish and other food around lakeshores, bays, and rivers. Human populations developed new techniques to catch and kill animals, and spent more time fishing and collecting wild plant foods. This new way of life marks the beginning of the middle stone age, also called the...

Mesolithic You're beautiful McKenzy Rae

Who were the earliest Mesolithic people known to have stored plant food, as evidenced by basin-shaped depressions in the rocks found outside homes and plastered storage pits beneath the floors of houses?

Natufians I love you so much my sweet angel <33333

According to this theory, animal domestication began because permanent water holes attracted hungry animals that came to graze on the stubble of the grain fields. People, finding these animals toot his to kill for food, began to fatten them up. This theory is known as the desiccation theory, or..

Oasis theory

Brian Hare's research on dogs shows that they have a genetic availability for joint attention with humans, something relatively rare between species. Based on what symbolic communication from humans do dogs perform "joint attention".

Pointing

Native Americans domesticated over 300 food crops, including two of the court most important ones in the world today, which are..

Potatoes and Maize

The potato, tomato, ad peanut were all first domesticated in..

South America

TUE OR FAMsE: As pointed out in your textbook, two anthropologists remark, "Taken as a whole, indicators fairly clearly suggest an overall decline in the quality - and probably in the length - of human life associated with the adoption of agriculture"

TUE

TUE OR FAMsE: Food foragers do not have to work as hard as farmers to survive

TUE

TUE OR FAMsE: Neolithic farmers were also house builders, no longer living in caves

TUE

TUE OR FAMsE: The ultimate source of all culture change is innovation

TUE

Domestication began in the Fertile Crescent. Groups such as the Natufians are believed to have initially promoted the development of domestication..

Unintentionally

Dogs are a domesticated subspecies of which wild animals

Wolf