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100
He conceptualized the “Neolithic Revolution” and popularized the Oasis Theory; he is also mentioned in the latest Indiana Jones movie as someone to be read.
Who is Vere Gordon Childe?
100
The human creation of a new form of plant or animal.
What is domestication?
100
These are natural and cultural processes that can that place after the deposition of an artifact (erosion, animal burrowing etc.)
What is taphonomy?
100
These refers to a morphological, or observable, trait that occurs as the result of domestication.
What is phenotypic?
100
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200
This PPNB site is the first known specialized ritualistic temple site.
What is Gobekli Tepe?
200
Corn, Wheat, Rice and Potato
What are the four most commonly used domesticated species?
200
This subfield of archaeology focuses on the study of animal remains, providing insights into past subsistence practices and strategies, animal domestication, and the non-dietary roles of animals in various societies in the past.
What is zooarchaeology?
200
This is a reliable means of establishing the age of sizable organic materials recovered from archaeological sites (it was developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s).
What is radiocarbon dating?
200
Tooth decay and enamal hypoplasia are signatures commonly seen in humans during the beginnings of this type of farming.
How are humans affected by the beginnings of farming/agriculture?
300
This 23,000 cal BP archaeological site was discovered in 1989 when the Sea of Galilee lake levels receded, revealing a fisher-hunter-gatherer campsite with evidence of broad spectrum foraging.
What is Ohalo II?
300
This is equivalent to agriculture and may involve selectively breeding animals for desired traits.
What is animal husbandry?
300
These types of remains include macroscopic and microscopic elements, which are often recoverable from archaeological deposits.
What are plant remains?
300
This dating method is used to obtain radiocarbon dates from samples that are far tinier than that needed for a standard radiocarbon dating. This method can use as little as 1-2 milligrams of a sample.
What is Accelerator Mass Spectometry?
300
Early domesticates in the Fertile Crescent included cereals included cereals, pulses, and these four animal species.
What are sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle?
400
Archaeologists contend that the specialized hunting strategies employed by occupants of this PPNB site led to herding and animal domestication in the Upper Euphrates river valley.
What is Nevali Çori?
400
These traits include: larger fruiting bodies, changes in the organisms habit/architecture, stronger seed attachments, thinner seed coats, increase in number of seeds or complete loss of seeds, and loss of physical and chemical defenses.
What are traits of domesticated plants?
400
A few examples of this are carbonized seeds, uncarbonized seeds, vegetative parts at sites, mineralized plant remains, or plants that are observable under a stereo-zoom microscope.
What type of data can be used in macroscopic plant analysis?
400
Complex permanent town structures are associated with this cultural period in SW Asia?
What is Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)?
400
This model asserts that Early Neolithic farmers replaced Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Europe.
What is the wave of advance?
500
The European Neolithic is associated with what archaeological horizon characterized by early farmers in Central Europe?
What is Linearbandkeramik (LBK)?
500
These traits include: more docile temperament, reduction in dentition and tooth size, general reduction in body size, changes in population structure, and increased juvenile mortality.
What is the Adaptive Syndrome of Domestication?
500
Rice phytolith, wild rice pollen, and potato starch are all examples of this.
What are three examples of microscopic plant analyses?
500
This cultural period includes noteworthy sites like Jerf el-Ahmar and Netiv Hagdud. It followed the end of the Younger Dryas and is characterized by a mixed economy with people cultivating different suites of locally available plants, hunting game, and gathering wild plants.
What is Pre-Pottery NeolithicA (PPNA)?
500
A single gene inheritance where a morphological feature is directly controlled by one or a small no. of gene loci
What is discrete polymorphism?
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