Ch. 10 Key Terms Kottak

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broad-spectrum evolution

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started ~15k B.P. in Middle East and 12k B.P. in Europe, during which a wider range (broader spectrum) of plants and animals were hunted, gathered, collected, caught, and fished;

revolutionary b/c it led to food productn

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Clovis tradition

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Stone technology based on a projectile point that was fastened to the end of a hunting spear;

it flourished bet. 12k and 11k B.P. in North America

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food production

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human ctrl ovr the reproductn of plants and animals

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Hilly Flanks

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Woodland zone that flanks the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the north;

zone of wild wheat and barley and of sedentism (settled, nonmigratory life) preceding food production.

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sedentism

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settled, nonmigratory life;

preceded food production.

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maize

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corn; domesticated in highland Mexico

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manioc

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Cassava; a tuber domesticated in the South American lowlands

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Mesoamerica

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Middle America, including Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.

MexGuaBel--mexsquabble

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Natufians

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Widespread Middle Eastern culture, dated to bet. 12.5k and 10.5k B.P.;

lived on intensive wild cereal collecting and gazelle hunting and had year-round villages.

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Neolithic

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"New Stone Age"
coined to describe techniques of grinding and polishing stone tools;

the 1st cultural period in a region in which the 1st signs of domestication are present.

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sedentism

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settled (sedentary) life;

preceded food production in the Old World and followed it in the New World

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teocentli

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or teosinte, a wild grass;

apparent ancestor of maize.