Exam 5: The Neolithic Revolution: The Domestication of Plants and Animals

The spread of ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another is called:

Which of the following is not an accurate portrayal of agricultural societies and food production?

Plant variants that do well in disturbed habitats are called _______________.

Evidence exists for some of the earliest plant domestication at:

The microlith became common throughout the "Old World" during the:

Describe the Oasis Theory.

Which language group first originated in sub-Saharan Africa and then spread outward?

In China, the domestication of _______________ occurred along the Yangtze River by about 11,000 years ago.

All of the following are associated with plant domestication except:

Name four common sources of Neolithic clothing.

Anthropologists Melvin Konner and Marjorie Shostak and physician Boyd Eaton have suggested the "Paleolithic prescription" that people's health will improve if they return to a lifestyle for which their body is adapted.

In the Biocultural Connection section entitled "Paleolithic Prescriptions for the Neolithic and Beyond," anthropologists Melvin Konner and Marjorie Shostak and Physician Boyd Eaton have suggested:

Indigenous Australians chose to continue to forage while also managing the land.

What are the advantages of vegeculture over seed crop cultivation?

Which of the following is not an animal that was first domesticated in the area of modern-day Mexico?

The domestication process was a consequence of a chance convergence of independent natural events and cultural developments.

The average birth spacing interval for hunters and gatherers is:

______________ is planting of crops with the use of the plow, irrigation, and fertilizers.

Which of the following is an effective mutagenic agent that could have affected the course toward plant domestication among the Natufians?

As humans managed animals more, these animals were shielded increasingly from the effects of natural selection.