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

The earliest Neolithic culture currently recognized in northern China is called:

Describe the Shell Mound Archaic. What are the significant implications of the shell mounds and of the human interments found within them?

The Yang-shao is:

Domesticated teosinte possesses what advantages over maize:

In complex foraging:

The shift in subsistence experienced by many cultures at the end of the Holocene is characterized by:

How can carbon isotope analysis be used to examine an ancient diet? Describe the carbon isotope evidence for dietary change in the Tehuacán valley. Describe the same analysis for prehistoric Britain.

The wild ancestor of the domesticated crop maize is:

The Koster site in Illinois is significant because:

Australia did not experience drastic climatic change at the end of the Pleistocene. In light of this, describe the post-Pleistocene cultures of Australia. Did they change or stay more or less the same?

Burials of the Shell Mound Archaic reflect:

The Roonka Flat site in post-Pleistocene Australia is characterized by the presence of:

Was agriculture, as scientist Jared Diamond contends, the "worst mistake in the history of the human race?"

The food base of the ancient world was remarkably modern. Explain.

Genetic analysis suggests that European cattle were first domesticated in:

When compared to the situation seen for the Upper Paleolithic, the movement of lithic raw materials through trade during the European Mesolithic can be characterized in this way:

Subsistence data recovered at the late Pleistocene sites of Quebrada Tacahua and Quebrada Jaguay in South America shows that:

The archaeological record shows that human groups adapted to the changed climatic conditions of the Holocene by:

Genetic analysis of the skeletons of the first farmers of Europe indicate that they were:

The early Holocene is marked by: