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The Neolithic demographic transition resulted in: |
a shift from low birthrate to high birthrate.
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During your lab you are asked to identify the pathological feature of spongy bone invading the eye socket that occurs in the interior upper surface of the eye sockets and to diagnose the condition as: |
cribra orbitalia, resulting from iron-deficiency anemia or parasitic infection.
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The human population increase of the Holocene was probably due to: |
decreased birth spacing.
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Bone comparisons from hunter-gatherers to later agriculturalists to modern peoples show: |
a decline in size.
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A round cross section of a long bone suggests that: |
the bone will have equal strength in all directions.
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Agriculture resulted in: |
population sedentism and crowding.
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One of the most important adaptive transitions in hominin evolution is: |
the shift from foraging to farming.
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__________ iron is found in some foods that provide all the amino acids humans require in their diet: |
Heme
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Cavities in the teeth are caused by: |
dental caries.
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Tooth size and jaw size have reduced in the last: |
10,000 yBP.
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A symptom of anemia where spongy bone invades the eye sockets is called: |
cribra orbitalia.
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New World domesticated products include: |
cotton
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By the close of the Pleistocene the human population numbered: |
several million.
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Parasitic infections are a primary cause of __________in many regions of the globe. |
iron-deficiency anemia
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The frequent occurrence of agriculturalism around the world was accompanied by two phenomena: |
decline in nutritional quality and increase in infectious disease.
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As towns and cities began to compete for increasingly limited resources: |
organized warfare developed.
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The domestication of wheat and barley spread to Greece by: |
8,000 yBP.
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Dental caries increased at the same time that populations were producing: |
corn
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A(n) __________ is a scientist who studies plant remains in the archaeological record. |
paleoethnobotanist
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The adoption of agriculture resulted in the development and spread of: |
infectious disease. |
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Common types of plants exist mostly in areas of the world with temperate climates and they include a range of crops and their wild ancestors such as: |
rye and rice and wheat and barley. |
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The domestication of wheat and barley spread to Greece by: |
8,000 yBP.
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The archaeological record suggests that farming began in southeastern Turkey by: |
10,500 yBP.
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The Neolithic site Çatalhöyük is located in: |
southwest Asia.
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Modern diseases made possible by overcrowding include, but are not limited to: |
measles, mumps, and cholera and smallpox and influenza. |
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Domestication produced more food per unit area of land than had hunting and gathering, meaning: |
more people could be fed from the same amount of land.
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