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Answer the following questions about the origins of agriculture.

1
Agriculture requires all of the following practices except
A)propagation.
B)husbandry.
C)consumption.
D)storage and maintenance.
E)harvesting.
2
The proposal that the earliest domesticates should appear where their wild ancestors lived is referred to as the
A)natural habitat hypothesis.
B)edge hypothesis.
C)oasis hypothesis.
D)population pressure hypothesis.
E)social hypothesis.
3
‘Ain Mallaha is located in present-day
A)Turkey.
B)Israel.
C)Iraq.
D)Greece.
E)Egypt.
4
The earliest known domesticated cereal, rye, dates to
A)12,000 B.C.
B)11,000 B.C.
C)10,000 B.C.
D)9,000 B.C.
E)8,000 B.C.
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During the Neolithic, the inhabitants of Jericho.
A)engaged in human sacrifice.
B)frequently engaged in war.
C)produced many luxury items made of gold.
D)were involved in long-distance trade.
E)All of the above.
6
A study of the bones of gazelles, goats, and sheep at Abu Hureyra revealed that
A)only goats were domesticated.
B)goats and sheep were domesticated around 7,500 B.C.
C)wild gazelles were transformed into domesticated goats.
D)sheep were domesticated about 1,000 years prior to goats.
E)(C) and (D) above.
7
Structures at Çatalhöyük were used for
A)burials.
B)households.
C)shrines.
D)storage.
E)All of the above.
8
Mehrgarh is important because
A)the site shows influences on later Indus Valley civilization.
B)goats were domesticated at the site earlier than anywhere else in the world.
C)the presence of wheat at early occupation levels was unexpected.
D)the site established a link between burial rituals and grain harvests.
E)clay used to make water vessels contained barley.
9
At Ban-po-ts’un, there
A)was domesticated wheat imported from Southwest Asia.
B)were no domesticated animals.
C)was domesticated millet.
D)All of the above.
E)(A) and (B) above.
10
Studies at Guilá Naquitz Cave have revealed that
A)corn was domesticated in Mexico by 8,000 B.C.
B)the cave was occupied seasonally between August and December.
C)venison provided the majority of calories for the site’s inhabitants.
D)rabbits were domesticated by 8,000 B.C.
E)the inhabitants did not have stone tool technology.
11
Analysis of the sequence in the Tehuacán Valley revealed that
A)domestication occurred in just a few centuries.
B)large, sedentary villages appeared thousands of years prior to the adoption of agriculture.
C)domestication of dogs took place much earlier in Mesoamerica than anywhere else in the world.
D)attempts to domesticate deer failed.
E)None of the above.
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According to this chart, reliance on wild plants peaked around

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A)6,000 B.C.
B)4,000 B.C.
C)2,000 B.C.
D)A.D. 1.
E)A.D. 1,000.







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