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RXRS 201 Neolithic Age Key TermNeolithic - correct answer ✔✔New Stone Age
People lived in small tribes composed of multiple bands or lineages
Start of settlements - permanent or seasonally inhabited
Cities begin to appear
Pottery and written languages appear
Farming limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated
Animal domestication
Dramatic increase in social inequality
Household viewed as the center of life
Complex Societies - correct answer ✔✔refers to a social formation described as a formative (sometimes
developed) state in anthropology and archaeology way
Division of Labor - correct answer ✔✔Members of society are specialized in particular activities and
crafts
Trade - correct answer ✔✔Goods and services exchanged for food, goods, or services
Custom and Laws - correct answer ✔✔Daily life is regulated; behaviors are controlled; punishment and
reward are standardized
Population Size - correct answer ✔✔The larger the population, the more complex and specialized the
people become
Hierarchy - correct answer ✔✔Ruling elite, supported by bureaucrats; administrative buildings and elite
residences; clothing and adornments to signify their station
, Immediate-Return - correct answer ✔✔Refers to hunter-gatherer societies; value consumption over
accumulation; share food with all present on the day they acquire it
Delayed-Return - correct answer ✔✔Refers to agricultural societies; work is invested over extended
periods of time before a yield is produced or consumed
Delay between labor investment and consumption results in hierarchical structure
Has the authority to distribute work, control yields and vital assets
Future-Discounting - correct answer ✔✔Cultivation motivated by the advantages of competitive feasting
- which provides political power and allows for the pursuit of self-interests
Psychoactive substances and grand feasts were the rationale between ______
Feast - correct answer ✔✔important social and political events
Require the production and storage ahead of time of large quantities of food and drink
If successful, able to obtain power and as a result reproductive success
Sustenance Strategies - correct answer ✔✔Dramatic changes and social structures when transitioning to
the neolithic age
Foraging - correct answer ✔✔The process of gathering food from uncultivated plants or undomesticated
animals; Hunter/ Gatherer lifestyle (Paleolithic)
Pastoralism - correct answer ✔✔The domestication of animals as a food source; does not depend on the
ability to grow crops; domestic animals are "free-range"
Horticulture - correct answer ✔✔Intentional cultivation of plants for personal use; the intent with
horticulture is not to grow an abundance of food but to grow enough food to sustain life within the
group; involves crop rotation
Aquaculture - correct answer ✔✔Farming of crustaceans, mollusks, aquatic plants, algae, and other
aquatic organisms
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