Exam 13: Our Last 10,000 Years: Agriculture, Population, and Biology

Discuss the evidence from the skeletons and teeth of early agriculturalists.Then describe the negative consequences of a shift from food foraging to the domestication of food in terms of pathologic evidence.

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Pathologies in the skeletons and teeth of early farmers have resulted from two factors.One is an increase in infectious disease.Since people were living in such close quarters, communicable diseases could be transmitted easily.For example, evidence on bone of diseases called treponematoses (syphilis and yaws) increased in the Holocene.
The other factor is poor nutrition.Although the growing of crops led to a more stable diet in terms of overall caloric intake, it also led to a reduction in the variety of foods eaten, meaning that some specific nutrients might have been lacking.For example, iron-deficiency anemia can arise if individuals consume too much of any crop that does not provide adequate iron.

The human population increase of the Holocene was probably due to:

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Hunter-gatherers' skeletons tend to show:

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Domestication produced more food per unit area of land than had hunting and gathering, meaning:

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Question 4

Discuss how morphologic changes to modern humans' faces, mandibles, and teeth changed after the shift to agriculture and consumption of softer foods.

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Question 5

A(n) _______ is a scientist who studies plant remains in the archaeological record.

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Question 6

Agricultural foods eventually shifted nutrition from a generalized diet to one focused on:

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Question 7

Bone comparisons between hunter-gatherers and later agriculturalists, then modern peoples show:

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Question 8

The Neolithic site Çatalhöyük is located in:

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Question 9

The Neolithic demographic transition resulted in:

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Question 10

_______ iron is found in some foods that provide all the amino acids humans require in their diet.

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Question 11

Some cases of anemia, which cause red blood cell production to increase in response to iron deficiency or blood loss, may lead to:

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Question 12

Cavities in the teeth are also called:

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Question 13

Comparisons of the bones from hunter-gatherers' to later agriculturalists' to modern peoples':

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Question 14

Agriculture resulted in:

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Question 15

New World domesticated products include:

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Question 16

By the close of the Pleistocene the human population numbered:

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Question 17

Dental caries in the New World increased at the same time that populations were producing:

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Question 18

What effect did the advent of agriculture have on the level of interpersonal violence seen in the archaeological record?

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Question 19

Modern diseases made possible by overcrowding include, but are not limited to:

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Discuss the evidence from the skeletons and teeth of early agriculturalists.Then describe the negative consequences of a shift from food foraging to the domestication of food in terms of pathologic evidence.

The human population increase of the Holocene was probably due to:

Hunter-gatherers' skeletons tend to show:

Domestication produced more food per unit area of land than had hunting and gathering, meaning:

Discuss how morphologic changes to modern humans' faces, mandibles, and teeth changed after the shift to agriculture and consumption of softer foods.

A(n) _______ is a scientist who studies plant remains in the archaeological record.

Agricultural foods eventually shifted nutrition from a generalized diet to one focused on:

Bone comparisons between hunter-gatherers and later agriculturalists, then modern peoples show:

The Neolithic site Çatalhöyük is located in:

The Neolithic demographic transition resulted in:

_______ iron is found in some foods that provide all the amino acids humans require in their diet.

Some cases of anemia, which cause red blood cell production to increase in response to iron deficiency or blood loss, may lead to:

Cavities in the teeth are also called:

Comparisons of the bones from hunter-gatherers' to later agriculturalists' to modern peoples':

Agriculture resulted in:

New World domesticated products include:

By the close of the Pleistocene the human population numbered:

Dental caries in the New World increased at the same time that populations were producing:

What effect did the advent of agriculture have on the level of interpersonal violence seen in the archaeological record?

Modern diseases made possible by overcrowding include, but are not limited to:

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