Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1.As was observed during the agricultural revolution, foragers are good at finding ways to extract more energy from a given area, a process known as intensification.
2.American archaeologist Peter Richerson contends that intergroup competition subsequent to the adoption of agriculture during the Holocene more orless forced communities to adopt farming, leading to its inevitable diffusion.
3.In the early Agrarian era people had a clear understanding of the potential benefits of animal fertilizer for thousands of years, and used irrigation extensively.
4.Basic anthropological theory states that the largerthe group, the more explicitly power and authority will beexercised
5.As humans moved from nomadic foraging to sedentary farming during the early Agrarian era, farmers did not farm and graze fertile soils adequately and did not sufficiently rely on irrigation.

Answer 1

1.False
Explanation: Foragers are good at finding new energy sources by spreading into new niches and environments, a process that is termed extensification. Farmers, on the other hand, find ways to extract more energy from a given area, a process that is calledintensification.
2.True
Explanation: American archaeologist Peter Richerson and his colleagues believe that the adoption of agriculture during the Holocene not only became possible but in the long run compulsory.Richerson contends that subsequent intergroup competition more or less forced communities to adopt farming, leading to its inevitable diffusion.
3.False
Explanation: In the Early Agrarian era most energy and labor came from humans, so children became increasingly important as potential farm laborers. Apparently people had no understandingof the potential benefits of animal fertilizer for thousands of years, until the so-called secondary products revolution. For much of the era there was very limited use of irrigation.
4.True
Explanation: Basic anthropological theory states that the largerthe group, the more explicitly power and authority will beexercised; and gradually throughout the Early Agrarianera, the egalitarianism of Paleolithic kinship groups was replacedby steep hierarchies of wealth and power, evidencedby burials around the world with great differences in theabundance and value of burial goods.
5.False
Explanation: Without any intention or perhaps even awareness of doing so, early farmers often pursued unsustainable agricultural practices. These included the overfarming and overgrazing of poorsoils (which led to desertification); excessive dependence on irrigation (which led to salinization); and widespread forest and jungle clearing (which led to serious erosion problems).