Which of the following was NOT domesticated in the eastern United States?
A. goosefoot
B. marsh elder
C. corn
D. squash
E. sunflower
Question 2
The path from foraging to food production was one that people followed independently in at least seven world areas. New archaeological research techniques continue to overturn previously held assumptions about where and how this occurred. Microscopic evidence from early cultivated plants suggests that
A. farming in the South American tropical lowlands preceded domestication in the Middle East by some 5,000 years.
B. New World farming began in the lowlands of South America and then spread to Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands.
C. maize was first domesticated in the Pacific islands and brought to the Americas by colonizers who navigated to the western coasts of South America.
D. all early domesticates originated among the Clovis people, whose knowledge then diffused southward.
E. the old assumption that New World farming originated in the upland areas is correct.
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