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1

The Natufians were
A)early agriculturalists who domesticated wheat and barley
B)complex hunter-gatherers who collected wild cereals and hunted game such as gazelle
C)early herders of sheep and goats
D)highly mobile hunters and gatherers
2

Which of the following has not been found at Natufian sites?
A)burials
B)flint sickle blades
C)polished stone axes
D)mortars and pestles
3

The first Natufian site to have been discovered was
A)Shukbah
B)Mallaha
C)Wadi Hammeh 27
D)Hayonim Terrace
4

Mallaha/Eynan and Hayonim Terrace have provided archaeological evidence for
A)mud-brick rectangular houses
B)small, circular houses with stone foundations
C)circular dwellings marked by small stake-holes
D)dense concentrations of bones and artifacts that mark the locations of tents
5

Which of the following lines of evidence have been used to suggest that the Natufians occupied their sites on a nearly year-round basis?
A)the presence of house mice and other commensal species only
B)cementum annuli only
C)both the presence of commensal species and cementum annuli
D)neither cementum annuli nor the presence of commensal species
6

Excavations at Karim Shahir in the Zagros region
A)produced the remains of fully domesticated sheep and gaots
B)produced a number of pecked and ground stone tools including querns nd rubbing stones
C)produced large quantities of domesticated cereals
D)all of the above
7

The inhabitants of Abu Hureyra in Syria
A)were contemporaries of the Natufians in the Southern Levant
B)hunted gazelles and collected wild cereals
C)may have begun cultivating rye during the Younger Dryas
D)all of the above
8

Near Eastern sites with evidence for early plant cultivation include
A)Gilgal and Netiv Hagdud
B)Mallaha and Wadi Hammeh 27
C)Hayonim Terrace and Shukbah
D)Karim Shahir and Jarmo
9

The technique known as flotation is used
A)to recover pollen from archaeological sites
B)to recover animal bones from archaeological sites
C)to recover seeds and other small plant remains from archaeological sites
D)all of the above
10

One botanical indicator of plant domestication
A)is a change from a brittle to a non-brittle rachis
B)is a shift from a non-brittle to a brittle rachis
C)is the appearance of seeds and stems in archaeological features
D)is sickle gloss
11

Sedentism may lead to population increase
A)if decreased mobility leads to a decrease in birth spacing
B)if starchy foods lead to earlier weaning
C)if plant yields are increased through cultivation
D)all of the above
12

Early domesticated goats have been identified from the site of
A)Ganj Dareh in Iran
B)Zawi Chemi Shanidar in Iraq
C)Karim Shahir
D)Shukbah
13

Which of the following characteristics has not been used to identify early domesticated goats?
A)twisted horn cores
B)an increased slaughter of young male goats
C)size increase
D)pathologies such as arthritis
14

The earliest domesticated animals in the Near East were
A)sheep and goats
B)cattle and pigs
C)horses and camels
D)llamas and alpacas
15

While sheep and goats were domesticated by early agricultural populations, in the Near East dogs
A)were not domesticated until the Bronze Age
B)were first domesticated by Native Americans
C)were domesticated in the late Pleistocene in Eurasia
D)were first domesticated in New Guinea and Australia
16

In contrast to the pattern of plant and animal domestication in the Middle east, in sub-Saharan Africa
A)cattle were domesticated thousands of years before plants were cultivated
B)plants and animals were domesticated at the same time
C)the earliest domestic animals were pigs
D)cattle were not domesticated independently
17

Plants that were initially domesticated in East Asia include
A)wheat and barley
B)rice and broomcorn millet
C)rice and maize
D)rice and bananas
18

Which of the following regions of the Old World was not an independent center of plant domestication?
A)Europe
B)East Asia
C)sub-Saharan Africa
D)New Guinea





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