What have new dating techniques applied to plant remains revealed about the origins of domestication in the New World?
A. Evidence of Mexican peanut hulls dating back 15,000 years confirms that the origin of domestication in the New World preceded food production everywhere else in the world by more than 5,000 years.
B. Evidence of Peruvian squash seeds dating back 10,000 years that were found but were not domesticated in the highlands are proof of even earlier New World domestication, probably in South America's tropical lowlands.
C. Evidence of Ecuadorian potatoes dating back 5,000 years suggests that food production originated in the New World as the result of growing population pressures, particularly in the South American Andes.
D. Food production in the New World was a result of knowledge brought by the first settlers to the Americas, who crossed Beringia approximately 18,000 years ago.
E. Food production had originated independently in five different regions of the Americas by 12,000 B.P.
Answer: B
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A) Baboons and other Old World monkeys live in the savanna despite being quadrupedal. B) Early hominins did not have any predators, and relied on a vegetarian diet. C) Hominins had moved out of the savanna before the development of bipedalism. D) Early hominins were very short, and savanna grasses would be far above their heads even if they stood bipedally.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Formal analogies are strengthened if
a. many ethnographic cases demonstrate the same pattern, and the archaeological and ethnographic cases have many attributes in common. b. they can be drawn between cultures with drastically different settlement systems, subsistence practices, or economies. c. close cultural continuity cannot be demonstrated between archaeological and ethnographic cases. d. few ethnographic cases in one region demonstrate the same pattern, but do not have any attributes in common. e. the archaeologist is in agreement with area people about the past history of landforms.
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A. bronze metallurgy B. human sacrifice C. a subsistence economy dominated by rice D. wealthy, royal tombs E. social stratification