The path from foraging to food production was one that people followed independently in at least seven world areas. One of these areas is what is now southern Egypt, where excavations at Nabta Playa
A. prove that in some cases, greater knowledge of food and plants does lead to domestication.
B. provide evidence for the "African cattle complex," in which cattle were used economically for their milk and blood rather than killed for their meat, except on ceremonial occasions.
C. suggest that its sedentary life, which flourished around 12,000 B.P., had an elaborate and previously unsuspected ceremonialism, as well as social complexity during the African Neolithic.
D. suggest it was entirely isolated from Middle Eastern influence until about 1000 B.P.
E. reveal evidence of sheep and goat domestication, unlike the transformation that occurred in the Middle East.
Answer: B
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