Exam 9: The Neolithic Revolution: the Domestication of Plants and Animals

Explain why the widespread use of pottery is,to the archaeologist,a good (but not foolproof)indication of a sedentary community.

Jared Diamond describes contemporary food foragers as "walking encyclopedias of natural history with individual names for as many as a thousand or more plant and animal species and with detailed knowledge of those species' biological characteristics,distribution,and potential uses."

As a result of the Irish potato famine,the population of Ireland,through emigration and famine,dropped from:

As pointed out in your textbook,two anthropologists remark," an overall decline in the quality-and probably in the length-of human life associated with the adoption of agriculture."

All of the following were associated with the Neolithic populations except:

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

Name three diseases that were passed from animals to humans as a result of living in close quarters following the Neolithic.

Dogs are a domesticated subspecies of which wild animal?

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

Global food distribution is of great concern to virologists because:

There are various correlations between human biology and domestication.Which of the following is not correct?

Neolithic farmers were also house builders,no longer living in caves.

-Sixty percent of the crops grown in the world today were invented by__________________,who not only remain the developers of the world's largest array of nutritious foods,but are also the primary contributors to the world's varied cuisines.

Define diffusion,and provide two examples.

How did the Neolithic Revolution impact social structure?

What types of material culture were produced during the Neolithic? How do these artifacts indicate a sedentary community?

How did Neolithic people use pottery? What material artifacts were made using this technique?

What are the disease risks associated with factory farming?

Nomadic groups frequently buried their dead in the same location.

Stonehenge is a Neolithic site.