The end of the Palaeolithic period coincides with

1. a warming climate and the retreat of glacial ice sheets
2. beginning of cave art
3. change from stone to metal tools
4. universal abandonment of hunting and gathering

In the Near East subsistence strategies based on domesticates were fully established by

1. 15000 BC
2. 3500 BC
3. 7000 BC
4. 3900 BC

In the Natufian culture of the Near East human beings lived by

1. scavenging from the kills of other predators
2. herding cattle
3. hunting, fishing, and gathering
4. cultivating beans and maize
5. hunting elephants and other big game

Which of the following statements about farming life as opposed to food foraging is correct?

1. Food foragers work harder to survive
2. Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.
3. Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers
4. Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.
5. Farmers have a more secure supply of food.

Which of the following was not domesticated in the New World?

1. Rice
2. Manioc
3. Sweet potato
4. Beans
5. Potato

Recent archaeological research on the origins of agriculture shows that

1. climatic changes at the end of the last Ice Age created conditions of adaptive stress to which the development of food production was a response
2. domestication was first developed in the Near East and spread by diffusion from there to the rest of the world
3. broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication

State societies most often are associated with a subsistence base that is based upon

1. intensified farming
2. nomadic pastoralism
3. simple farming
4. hunting and gathering

In Mesoamerica domesticated maize was cultivated by

1. 3500 BC
2. 7000 BC
3. 2000 BC
4. 500 BC

Where is Mesopotamia?

1. The area between Quito and Lima
2. The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
3. The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
4. The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala
5. The area along the Indus River in Pakistan

Writing in Mesopotamia was first invented

1. During the Natufian period
2. At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.
3. in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection