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1

Archaeologists such as Richard MacNeish have been interested in studying the domestication of maize because
A)maize is a cereal grain
B)domesticated maize provided the economic foundation for the emergence of complex societies in the Americas
C)maize was originally domesticated in South America
D)all of the above
2

The geographic region known as Mesoamerica includes
A)all of Mexico
B)Panama
C)southern Mexico and the adjacent areas of Central America
D)all of the above
3

MacNeish and his colleagues chose to excavate in the Tehuacán Valley because
A)it was home to the earliest complex societies in Mesoamerica
B)it was home to the Olmecs and Aztecs
C)the dry climate aided in the preservation of organic remains
D)the wild relatives of llamas and alpacas were available in the valley
4

New AMS dates on maize remains from the Tehuacán Valley have shown that
A)the maize is much older than expected
B)the maize is not really domesticated
C)the Tehuacán Valley is clearly a primary center for the domestication of maize
D)the maize is much younger than expected
5

Teosinte is defined as
A)the wild ancestor of maize
B)the wild ancestor of squash
C)the wild ancestor of beans
D)an ancient domestic form of squash
6

Archaeobotanists have discovered that the wild form of maize this is closest to domestic corn is located in
A)the Tehuacán Valley
B)the Balsas River Valley
C)the Valley of Mexico
D)the Mexican Gulf Coast
7

If the Tehuacán Valley is found to be a primary center of plant domestication, then
A)sedentism clearly preceded plant and animal domestication in Mexico
B)the pattern of domestication is very similar to the pattern seen in the Middle East
C)animal domestication clearly preceded plant domestication
D)plant domestication clearly preceded permanent settlements
8

Guilá Naquitz in Oaxaca has produced the remains of the world's earliest domesticated
A)maize and beans
B)squash and beans
C)squash and maize
D)squash and tomatoes
9

The new radiocarbon dates from Guilá Naquitz indicate that
A)squash may have been domesticated before maize
B)beans were the first plant to be domesticated in the Americas
C)maize was clearly domesticated before squash
D)maize, beans, and squash were domesticated at roughly the same time
10

Kent Flannery suggests that early Mesoamericans began to domesticate plants in order to
A)feed a rapidly growing hunter-gatherer population
B)reduce risk by evening out plant yields between the good years and the bad years
C)respond to the climatic changes at the end of the Pleistocene
D)all of the above
11

Plants domesticated in highland South America include
A)potato and quinoa
B)potato and maize
C)quinoa and maize
D)potato and wheat
12

Mesoamerican domestic animals were limited to
A)the llama and the guanaco
B)the llama and the alpaca
C)the dog and the guanaco
D)the dog and the turkey
13

Animals domesticated in South America include
A)the llama
B)the alpaca
C)the guinea pig
D)all of the above
14

Deer could not be domesticated in Mesoamerica because
A)early Mesoamericans did not know how to domesticate animals
B)the Mesoamericans had already domesticated cattle
C)deer cannot be penned or herded closely together
D)deer had already been domesticated in North America
15

Which of the following sites provides archaeological evidence for the initial domestication of camelids in South America?
A)Telemarchay
B)Guilá Naquitz
C)Coxcatlan
D)all of the above
16

Which of the following plants were initially domesticated in eastern North America?
A)hazelnuts and hickory nuts
B)quinoa and sunflowers
C)sumpweed and goosefoot
D)all of the above
17

Phytoliths are
A)another term for pollen grains
B)never preserved in archaeological soils
C)plant silica bodies
D)usually recovered by wet screening
18

Phytolith analyses have been used to study
A)the spread of bananas to Africa
B)the initial domestication of cattle
C)the initial domestication of squash at Guilá Naquitz
D)the domestication of maize at Telemarchay Cave
19

The patterns of plant and animal domestication are different in the Old World and the Americas because
A)a wider range of animals was domesticated in the Old World
B)plant domestication began earlier in the Old World
C)many plants that are important staples throughout the world, such as maize and potatoes, were initially domesticated in the Americas
D)all of the above





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