Old World
Two cereal crops central to Southwest Asia domestication
What is Wheat and Barley?
Human impacted event perceived to be a reason there was not domestication of herds or animal labor
What is Mega Faunal Extinction?
Process that involves cultivating plants with desirable characteristics over many generations
What is domestication?
Domesticated livestock effects on early agricultural progress
What is tools, food, and labor?
Three current day countries that make up the majority of the fertile crescent
What is Turkey, Iraq, and Iran?
What is Bottle Gourds?
Region of early domestication of Corn
What is Mesoamerica?
Animals such as cats and dogs provide labor through
What is pest control?
What is China/South Asia?
Flower mentioned in the text to have been domesticated in eastern North America
What is Sunflower?
Number of secondary centers as indicated by Roberts 2014 (Fig. 5.1)
Major center that domesticated cattle between 9-8 ka BP
What is Southwest Asia?
Tool utilized for separating seeds from stalks
What is Threshing Sled?
Colonization period where many domesticated and species spread between old and new world
What is the Spanish Colonial Period?
River basin associated with early rice farming
What is Yangtze River Basin?
Horses domestication pathway follows direct, commensal, or prey
What is direct?