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karateprodigy

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Which of the following statements does not describe the development of plant domestication in the Near East?
 
  a. It was preceded by a hunting and gathering economy based on small-grain grass and cereal seeds.
  b. It coincides with a cooler and dryer climate.
  c. It is associated with the human dispersal of cereal grasses to the stream valleys.
  d. Epipaleolithic foraging cultures, such as Kebaran and Natufian, took the first steps toward agriculture.
  e. Small- grained grass and wild cereal seeds were not important in earlier hunter gathered diets

Question 2

Domestication may be evident in what aspect of archaeological herd demography?
 
  a. an abundance of young males
  b. the predominance of prime-age females
  c. equal distribution of males and females
  d. equal distribution of all age and sex classes
  e. primarily older males and juvenile females



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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

a



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