Origins of Agriculture: Quiz 3 for Prehistoric Archaeology Students

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 1 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture Due Nov 8 at 11:59pm Points 10 Questions 20 Available Nov 7 at 10:30am - Nov 8 at 11:59pm Time Limit 30 Minutes Instructions Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 20 minutes 7 out of 10 ! Correct answers will be available on Nov 12 at 12am. Score for this quiz: 7 out of 10 Submitted Nov 8 at 8:25pm This attempt took 20 minutes. Select the single best answer from the multiple choices provided below. Once you begin, you will have 30 minutes for this quiz. 0 / 0.5 pts Question 1 Incorrect Incorrect The process of domestication differs from natural selection because... ...people are purposefully selecting traits and people are not natural. ...with domestication, heritability is absent. ...in natural selection, there is no need for variability in phenotypes.

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 2 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 Trick question: natural selection is the mechanism underlying domestication. 0 / 0.5 pts Question 2 Incorrect Incorrect Childe’s Neolithic Revolution proposes a theory for the origins of agriculture centered on the idea that domestication is most likely to occur in _______. 'hilly flanks' areas of social inequality oases Florida 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 3 In emphasizing Social Stratification and Social Competition as a prime driver of domestication, Barbara Bender and Bryan Hayden propose that:

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 3 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 leaders encourage people to produce ONLY what they need to survive out of social responsibility. leaders encourage people to produce MORE than they need to survive in order to throw feasts, which benefit leaders. leaders who show off by producing more than they need will ultimately be resented by others and thrown out of power. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 4 Which could be used as evidence supporting the idea of "self- domestication" (ie., the process wherein the introduction of agriculture into our environment has changed the selective pressures we experience)? Lactase persistence that allows for adults to digest milk. Amylase persistence that allows for adults to eat bananas. The maintenance of hunter-gatherer populations amongst agricultural populations. The maintenance of agricultural populations amongst hunter-gatherer populations.

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11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 4 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 5 Archaeological evidence revealing that domestication occurs in times and places of population growth, resource stress, and economic intensification would _____ Flannery’s "Broad Spectrum Revolution Hypothesis." refute support 0 / 0.5 pts Question 6 Incorrect Incorrect Evidence revealing that domestication occurs only when CO levels are low would _____ the `External' component of Bettinger and colleagues' 'External and Internal Constraints Hypothesis'. 2 refute support 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 7

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 5 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 While agriculture is often presumed to be an improvement over foraging, harvesting domesticated wheat may actually be more labor intensive than collecting wild grain. This is due in part to an additional step known as ______ which is required with domesticated wheat due to changes in the way that seeds disperse. shearing sowing threshing rachising 0 / 0.5 pts Question 8 Incorrect Incorrect An archaeologist working in Mesopotamia just published a paper proposing the following conclusions about early agricultural societies in the region. Based on “Hawke’s Ladder of Inference”, in which conclusion would you have the least certainty? Social boundaries formed between an upper class and a lower class. The population relied on domesticated grain for subsistence. Political life centered on a single elite ruler. The population was bound together by shared religious beliefs.

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 6 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 0 / 0.5 pts Question 9 Incorrect Incorrect In the Levant (Near East/SW Asia), the transition from the PPNA period to the PPNB is associated with... ...a transition to wild resources. ...the domestication of sheep and goats. ...the domestication of wheat. 0 / 0.5 pts Question 10 Incorrect Incorrect The appearance of agriculture in Europe about 8,000 years ago is most clearly due to: diffusion. innovation. migration (invasion). 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 11 The Neolithic demographic transition (NDT) may have led to the rise of

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11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 7 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 infectious disease because... ...it led to a reduction in population density. ...it led to an increase in population density. ...it led to an increase in mortality. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 12 Widespread evidence for population decline (i.e., reduction in fertility) following the transition to agriculture would _________ the hypothesis that the Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT) is one of the reasons why there are nearly 8 billion of us today. confirm refute 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 13 According to your text, Robert Kelly proposes that population growth associated with the transition to agriculture results from hunter- gatherers having more children than farmers. True

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 8 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 False 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 14 Teosinte... is a wild ancestor of flax. is a wild ancestor of maize. is a wild ancestor of pepo squash. is a wild ancestor of turkey. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 15 Given what you know about the Neolithic Demographic Transition, which population would you expect to experience a higher R from the same infectious disease? (recall the behavioral factors that alter R ) 0 0 Mobile hunter-gatherers Sedentary farmers Trick question: they would experience the same R0

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 9 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 16 Emphasized in your reading and discussed in lecture, what is one possible explanation for why farmers have more offspring than hunter- gatherers? Agricultural foods increase inter-birth intervals, thereby reducing the number of children born. Neolithic pottery allowed young mothers to cook meat faster. Agricultural foods are better for weaning offspring, which shortens inter- birth intervals. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 17 Once domesticated maize is taken outside of the tropics and into North America... ...it becomes more costly to grow, often requiring irrigation. ...it becomes feral, returning to wild teosinte. ...it becomes less affected by drought.

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11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 10 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 18 Ancestral Puebloan populations abandoned places like Chaco Canyon and moved to places like Mesa Verde due to... ...a prolonged drought. ...a period of intense rainfall. ...the desire for better views. ...the appearance of maize. 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 19 Increasing the rate of contact between individuals will _______ R 0. reduce increase stabilize 0.5 / 0.5 pts Question 20

11/8/23, 8 : 25 PM Quiz 3: Origins of Agriculture: ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology Page 11 of 11 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/887402/quizzes/3159546 Epidemic disease only occurs after the transition to agriculture because... a) ...agricultural populations live at higher densities. b) ...agricultural populations live in closer proximity to domesticated animals. c) Both a. and b. Quiz Score: 7 out of 10

Quiz 3 Origins of Agriculture ANTH 1030-001 Fall 2023 Prehistoric Archaeology

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