Question 1

The increased use of stationary food sources during the Epipaleolithic explains in part why people in the Near East began to

Accepted Answer

A)   hunt over wide ranges more than ever.
B)   lead more sedentary lives.
C)   have a breakdown in family life.
D)   become nomadic. B

Question 2

Most archaeologists believe that the __________ was one of the earliest centers of plant and animal domestication.

Accepted Answer

A)   Kansas plains
B)   Sahara Desert
C)   African savanna
D)   Fertile Crescent D

Question 3

The sequence of food acquisition was

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A)   collecting to hunting to agriculture.
B)   agriculture to collecting to hunting.
C)   hunting to collecting to agriculture.
D)   collecting to agriculture to hunting. C

Question 4

Discuss the relationship between early agricultural and health.

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Question 5

The first clear indication of a changeover to food production took place in the Near East about

Accepted Answer

A)   10,000 B.C.
B)   8,000 B.C.
C)   4,000 B.C.
D)   2,000 B.C.

Question 6

Evidence of textile making and painted pottery comes from villages established

Accepted Answer

A)   in Paleolithic times.
B)   in Mesolithic times.
C)   after the rise of food production.
D)   long before the rise of food production.

Question 7

Earliest evidence of domesticated dogs comes from a site in northern Israel dated to about _______ years ago.

Accepted Answer

A)   50,000
B)   32,000
C)   20,000
D)   12,000

Question 8

In Ali Kosh in southwestern Iran after about 5500 B.C., ______________ were two important innovations.

Accepted Answer

A)   irrigation and the use of domesticated cattle
B)   the steel plow and crop rotation
C)   intercrop cultivation and fertilizer
D)   growth of legumes and artificial fertilizer

Question 9

Which is not put forth as a possible reason for broad-spectrum collecting?

Accepted Answer

A)   climate change
B)   overkill
C)   population growth
D)   average height of the population

Question 10

The shift to food production is called the ____________by V. Gordon Childe.

Accepted Answer

A)   Paleolithic Revolution
B)   Neolithic Revolution
C)   Cambrian Revolution
D)   Mesolithic Revolution

Question 11

Settled life is called

Accepted Answer

A)   sedentarism.
B)   nomadism.
C)   hunting.
D)   wandering.

Question 12

Dogs were the first animals domesticated, about 15,000 years ago. Why?

Accepted Answer

A)   perhaps hunting shifted from large to small prey and dogs were useful tracking game
B)   perhaps they could retrieve killed game from bodies of water
C)   perhaps they could serve as alarm-givers if predators came close
D)   all of the above

Question 13

As humans began to domesticate plants, these plants became different than the wild varieties. Why?

Accepted Answer

A)   because they had better quality water from which to grow
B)   because the wild varieties were controlled more easily
C)   because the process of artificial or human selection
D)   actually, there were no differences

Question 14

The evidence available shows that the Archaic people of Highland Mesoamerica were different that the Natufians in that

Accepted Answer

A)   there were no social differences in Highland Mesoamerica.
B)   their society was highly stratified.
C)   their children were raised in social classes which they stayed in for life.
D)   none of the above.

Question 15

Archaeologists speak of domestication only when there is evidence that plants and animals show a ______ wild plants and animals.

Accepted Answer

A)   similarity to
B)   difference from
C)   relationship with
D)   none of the above

Question 16

Unlike the Natufians, there was _________evidence of social differences among the Archaic peoples of the Mesoamericas.

Accepted Answer

A)   great
B)   some
C)   little
D)   no

Question 17

Discuss how archaeologists know that they have discovered sites that show evidence of a switch to food production and why that is important.

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Question 18

Domestication in Africa is dated to around

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A)   12000 B.C.
B)   6000 B.C.
C)   300 B.C.
D)   1000 A.D.

Question 19

The ________ think that dogs domesticated themselves.

Accepted Answer

A)   Goffmans
B)   Geertzes
C)   Embers
D)   Childes

Question 20

Archaeologists study what ancient peoples ate by

Accepted Answer

A)   studying ancient food wastes.
B)   looking at charred remains of cooking fires.
C)   examining coprolites.
D)   all of the above

Exam 12: Origins of Food Production and Settled Life