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
