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

Analysis of mtDNA of domesticated cattle in the Old World indicates that:

Maize became the most important source of food for many North American Natives about how long ago:

In South America, a non-food plant was domesticated that provides a significant source of the world's fiber. That plant is:

The Younger Dryas was:

Describe the Australian Small Tool Phase. How did the stone tools produced during this period differ from those seen at older Australian sites?

In terms of their subsistence, the Natufian people were:

The Australian Small Tool Phase is characterized by the production of:

Describe the shift to food production in South America. What are some of the key crops that contributed to subsistence in the uplands?

At the 10,200-year-old Asikli Höyük site in Turkey, researchers suggested that wild sheep had been corralled in the village because they found a concentration of:

At the site of Nabta Playa, food remains were abundant. Which important African crop was found there in perhaps a very early stage of incipient domestication:

Genetic analysis pinpoints which area as the likely source for domesticated wheat:

Where was rice domesticated:

Support or refute the following statement: The Holocene marks the end glaciation.

The first crop domesticated in the New World was:

What was the process by which maize was domesticated?

In the term "Mast Forest Archaic," the "mast" refers to the:

The population characteristics of a tamed, tended, or domesticated animal species used in the diet of an ancient people often reflect the fact that:

The last Neo-Borea or "Little Ice Age" lasted from:

Among the domesticated root crops of South America were:

On what basis do researchers distinguish domesticated from wild plants of the same species?