Exam 5: Hunting, Gathering, Foraging, Farming, and Complexity

Briefly describe the readiness theory for agricultural development .

Sunflowers were domesticated in _________________.

How can we identify political complexity in the archaeological record?

The region called the Levant includes all of these modern nation-states except:

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is famous for its ________________________.

If the initial interpretations of Göbekli Tepe are correct, what is so unusual about the site?

Food surpluses often create conditions conducive to ______________________.

____________________ is another name for the Late Epipaleolithic period in the Levant.

___________________ is a term used to refer to hunter-gatherer-forager groups in the Middle East between 23,000 and 9600 cal BC.

The largest animals domesticated in the Americas are Turkeys.

Some __________________ sites in the Levant include plastered human skulls.

The Archaic (or Preceramic) period in the New World corresponds approximately to the ____________________ period in Europe.

The first animals domesticated by humans were cattle.

What attributes of gray wolves may have made them candidates for early domestication?

Nuts are a particularly useful resource for hunter-gatherer-foragers because of their oil and fat content.

How can social complexity and stratification be identified in the archaeological record?

____________________ is a PPNA site in Jordan.

Surprisingly, evidence from Belgium and Siberia suggests that dogs may have been domesticated as early as ______________________.

A feasting model for the origins of agriculture is applicable in all contexts.

PPN is an abbreviation of _________________________.