Why might people have traveled to the Americas? correct answers People followed and hunted animal herds out of Asia, and Asia's domestic hunting could have been pressured due to population increase
What is significant about the skeleton of the girl divers found in the Mexican cave? correct answe...
ANTH-1100 WMU EXAM 2 || A+ VERIFIED SOLUTIONS.
Why might people have traveled to the Americas? correct answers People followed and hunted
animal herds out of Asia, and Asia's domestic hunting could have been pressured due to
population increase
What is significant about the skeleton of the girl divers found in the Mexican cave? correct
answers - It was incredibly old at 12,000-13,000 years, very few skeletons are found at this age
complete
- DNA from teeth reveal travel from ancient Alaska and Northern Canada
- Bones reveal evidence of significant walking and child birth
What materials does radiocarbon dating work on, and what is the range for it? correct answers
Organic Material or Carbon, 45,000 - 1800 year range
What are two things dendrochronology tells us about the past? correct answers - Reveals date of
cut down
- Reveals climate of tree throughout its life, such as droughts or floods
What makes some animals easier to domesticate than others? correct answers - Being human
friendly
- Already in herds
- Needs to eat everything
- Needs to breed under captivity
What damage do we see in human bones associated with early farming? correct answers -
Gender specific and different wear and tear than hunters and gathers
- Women: lower backs, toes, knees from kneeling (grinding crop)
- Men: upper backs, arms from carrying things and labor
What broader change may have encouraged people in this area to try farming? correct answers -
More predictable food source after various climate change
- Climate change caused interest in consistency
What new tools are invented once grains are a larger part of the diet? correct answers Tools for
grinding grain, cutting, digging, axes for clearing trees for farmland
How do the diets of the people in the Near East change, as they shift from being complex
hunters/gatherers to farmers? correct answers Diet is less diverse and more focused on the "key
3" due to becoming more sedentary
What social developments are related to farming? correct answers - Site's increase in size and
population, creating city like civilization
- Egalitarian mindset is gone, there were now people in charge and of rank in society, and also a
new care for personal property
- More religion or ritual (rain gods)
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