Exam 7: After the Ice: Before 10000

__________ enabled sedentary hunter-gatherers to cope with food shortages.

In 13000 B. C., small and highly mobile hunter-gatherer bands inhabited the Levant and are subsumed under the general cultural name of __________.

Initial investigations of __________ concluded it was occupied in the winter, but recent investigations show that this site was occupied in the spring and summer.

Which is NOT a subdivision of northern Mesolithic culture?

By 10000 B. C. it is estimated that the world's population was approximately __________.

What is a label that describes the region of the eastern Mediterranean coastline and immediate hinterland?

An ungulate is a __________.

The time period from 10,000 years ago to the present is called the __________.

Conditions for complex hunter-gatherer societies include everything EXCEPT __________.

The ability of the world's many environments to support animals and people is its __________.

Which period of post-Ice Age times in Europe preceded the introduction of farming?

Cemeteries dating to the __________ period in Scandinavia show that some individuals met violent deaths, and there is even potential evidence of cannibalism.

Describe the Mesolithic in Scandinavia. What were its cultural periods and what were major changes associated with each period?

A transitional zone between different environments is a(n) __________.

Use of the bow and arrow spread throughout the Old World by __________.

Discuss the evidence used by recent archaeologists to conclude that Star Carr was occupied in the spring and summer instead of the winter as was first thought.

__________ means to be around or near glaciers.

Discuss how the Natufians' utilization of wild cereal grains helped them adapt to a reliance on cereal crops.

Permanent settlement at one location for all, or sometimes just most, of the year and over more than one year is termed __________.

Hunting and gathering intensified by __________.