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Answer the following questions about the origins of agriculture.

1
Our ancestry as food collectors extends back more than four million years.
A)True
B)False
2
Southwest Asia is often considered the “cradle of Western civilization.”
A)True
B)False
3
Mesopotamia is where agriculture first began.
A)True
B)False
4
Abu Hureyra contained both Natufian and Neolithic deposits.
A)True
B)False
5
Despite evidence of plant domestication at Abu Hureyra, no evidence of animal domestication was found.

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A)True
B)False
6
In order to distinguish domesticated plant varieties from wild types, actual plant parts or grain impressions in clay bricks or pottery are needed.
A)True
B)False
7
Domesticated species are generally smaller than their wild ancestors.
A)True
B)False
8
Ceramics are the most common kind of artifact found at most post-Paleolithic sites.

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A)True
B)False
9
Archaeologists have determined that rice was originally domesticated in Thailand.

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A)True
B)False
10
Domesticated rice was present at Spirit Cave in Southeast Asia earlier than in China.
A)True
B)False
11
The ancestor of modern corn was native to southern or western Mexico.
A)True
B)False
12
Domestication of squash in the eastern United States occurred after the plant arrived from Mexico.
A)True
B)False







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