Author Question: According to scholars Ester Boserup, Lewis Binford, and Mark Cohen, the principal factor responsible ... (Read 19 times)

penguins · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

According to scholars Ester Boserup, Lewis Binford, and Mark Cohen, the principal factor responsible for the beginning of plant and animal domestication was __________.

A. resource availability in key environmental niches
B. seasonal differences in the abundance of wild species
C. population pressure on finite natural resources
D. the increased cognitive abilities of Neolithic humans

Question 2

Lewis Binford has suggested that one source of demographic stress at the end of the Pleistocene period was __________.

A. the concentration of plant and animal resources around reliable water sources
B. a rise in global sea levels that forced coastal peoples to move farther inland
C. increased seasonality in the availability of wild food resources
D. a dramatic increase in human fertility due to evolutionary changes