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Essay Questions
Chapter 11: Cultivation and Domestication
- Why do you think early peoples adopted agriculture? Discuss the advantages
and disadvantages of adopting an agricultural way of life, using the
Iroquoian peoples as an example.
- How can the domestication of plants and animals have a positive impact
on human development? How can archaeologists distinguish between domesticated
and wild species of plants and animals?
- How has our understanding about the adoption of an agricultural way
of life changed in the past few years? What new sampling techniques
or new discoveries have allowed us to study this problem in more detail?
- Compare the agricultural strategies and resources of New World ‘Neolithic’
peoples to Old World Neolithic peoples. What similarities and differences
do you see? What explanations can you see for these differences?
- Why did items like housing, clothing, pottery, and such not fully
develop before the advent of agriculture? What other cultural items
developed as a result of domestication and settlement?
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