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Question 1. Why do archaeologists use concepts borrowed from ecology to understand how humans have responded to their environments? What are these concepts, and how can they help us understand the human past?
Question 2. What differentiated domestication from agriculture? Illustrate your answer with examples from this chapter
Question 3. Describe the different explanations offered by archaeologists for the domestication of plants and animals by humans.
Question 4. Summarize the discussion of the beginnings of domestication in southwestern Asia
Question 5. Who were the Natufians? What does archaeological research tell us about the processes of plant and animal domestication in Natufian society?
Question 6. Summarize the key consequences of domestication and sedentism for human ways of life. In what ways have these consequences shaped modern ways of life in Canada?
Question 7. What is social complexity? What is the archaeological evidence for social complexity?
Question 8. What does Michael Hoffman mean by the term powerfacts? In modern North American Societies, what objects might serve a purpose similar to that of powerfacts in early complex civilization?
Question 9. What were the world's first complex spcieties and where were they located? What was unique about these locations?
Question 10. Outline the different hypotheses that archaeologists put forward to explain the beginning of complex societies. How did sedentism affect social complexity?