What changes came for human communities with the end of the Ice Age? How did these changes lay the groundwork for further change?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Communities separated and adapted to different environments; they developed ways of life of their own
1) Human communities followed large animal herds as the ice cap retreated
2) Climate change trapped other foraging peoples in environments where they had to develop new ways of life
3) Archaeological evidence from the post–Ice Age Middle East shows people could settle in one place without needing to farm
a) foods could all be warehoused between harvests
b) dense herds of gazelle in the grasslands provided more nutrition for hunters
c. food was so plentiful that foragers did not have to move around much to find it
B. The lives of preagricultural settlers laid the groundwork for the early farmers who succeeded them
1) Foraging and harvesting what was around them to support the settlements
2) Settlements had small, permanent houses that held nuclear families and communal work areas for grinding seeds and nuts
3) Work was probably shared between the sexes
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