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

In Southwest Asia, animals began to be domesticated around ______________ years ago.

According to the text, the ultimate source of all culture change is:

Which anthropologist suggested the core-fringe-legume pattern?

Give two potential reasons, one biological and one cultural, that may have caused fertility rates to rise with the advent of farming and sedentism.

_______________ is root crop farming.

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

Not only crops, but also languages spread through diffusion from one group to another.

Food production led directly to increased sedentism.

Why did Jared Diamond call contemporary food foragers "walking encyclopedias"?

With the end of the last glaciation, climates became:

During the Neolithic, the earth's environment became substantially colder.

For the most part Neolithic crops were selected for:

Life in Paleolithic villages included innovations like tool making, pottery, housing, and clothing.

The Irish potato famine caused a population drop on the island at that time from 8 million to _______________.

Jared Diamond argues that domestication is not unique to humans because in the American tropics _______________ also domesticate when they grow fungi in their nests.

An early argument put forth to highlight the benefits of agriculture was that it required less time than hunting and gathering. Hunter and gatherers were sometimes characterized as unstable, living on the edge of starvation. Research has indicated the opposite, that farmers are indeed the ones that, by and large, work longer hours and are more prone to food shortages and crop failures. Discuss the costs and affordances that each subsistence system has.

A mode of subsistence based on herding of domesticated animals is called ______________.

GMO food, or genetically modified organisms, has become hotly contested over the past several years. Arguments for and against this procedure abound. One of the arguments for GM food is that the process is a continuation of domestication practices that human populations have done for centuries. In what ways is this statement accurate? In what ways is it not?

The hunter-gatherer birth spacing interval is primarily the result of:

Certain technologies, such as the sickle, encouraged seed dissemination and the advance of domestication.