Exam 11: Origins of Agriculture

Domestication syndrome refers to

How have domesticated varieties of wild grasses lost their ability to survive in Nature?

Which of the following is not among the evidence discovered that New Guinea was one of the first primary centers of agriculture?

Archaeological evidence from the _______ reveals a relatively continuous evolution from foraging to farming and the first domestication of maize (corn).

_____________ are fossilized fecal materials that have been used to provide direct evidence of the diet of early humans.

The most decay resistant substance in a plant is

The shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture began about ________ thousand years ago.

In the Near East our first cultivated plants were:

Which of the following is true about the traditional !Kung foraging way of life?

Coffee was first domesticated in the mountains of

Which of the following is not a trait of at least some domesticated plant varieties?

Pollen grains preserve well in soils because of the

The Fertile Crescent was an early site of agriculture in the:

Coprolites are fossilized

One early theory on the origin of agriculture states that it was an ancient genius who realized that plants found at dumpsites had grown from discarded seeds.

Phytoliths

Archaeological evidence suggests maize (corn)was domesticated in Mexico approximately _______ years ago.

__________ is the Russian botanist who proposed eight centers of origin for domesticated crops.

The ____________ is a site that has yielded the oldest agricultural evidence to date.

Archaeological evidence indicates that in Jarmo in northeastern Iraq,domestication of wheat and barley took place before ______ thousand years ago.