Exam 8: After the Ice: The Food-Producing Revolution

Archaeologist David Phillipson characterizes the post-Pleistocene of Africa as reflecting a movement away from "broad cultural uniformity" and toward a pattern of regionalization. What does this mean? What does the evidence show?

How did the food producing revolution set the stage for an explosion in cultural complexity that culminated in the evolution of state societies or "civilizations?"

The Capsian culture of post-Pleistocene Africa is characterized by the production of:

The goat remains found at Ganj Dareh:

About how long ago does it appear that human beings may have been caring for small wild cats:

The Holocene is best characterized as having:

In the domestication of wild wheat, human beings select for:

The three archaic cultures of New York, New England, and southeastern Canada are called by archaeologist Dean Snow:

Though not well known outside of the semiarid tropics, these two African crops were and are primary sources of protein for agriculturists:

Cold-loving, high-altitude-adapted root crops were a significant part of the food producing revolution in:

The domestication of plants occurred independently in which world area(s):

Teosinte is:

In both the Old and New Worlds, the delay between the initial domestication of plants and animals and the evolution fully agricultural societies is measured in:

The domestication of the horse as a beast of burden is now traced how far back and where:

The beginning of the Holocene presented what sort of conditions to which human groups needed to adapt:

Evidence indicates that the sunflower was domesticated in:

The South American domesticate that today represents the most important contribution of that continent to the diet of the modern world is:

The Holocene most likely is an interglacial period. Using the previous interglacial as a guide, this means that:

It has been suggested that the taro remains found at the Kuk Swamp site are indicative of tending or even early domestication because:

In faunal remains as well as in the art they produced, it is apparent that the people of the Maritime Archaic: