Fagan Ancient Lives - Chapter 11 Terms

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food production

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agriculture and animal domestication

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Holocene

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(from the Greek word for 'recent'). the era since the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) which occurred c 10,000 BC

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tomol

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planked canoe used by the Chumash people of Southern California

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agricultural revolution

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(expression coined by V. Gordon Childe). the beginning of food production prompted by drought and close associations among animals, humans, and plants

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accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating

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method of radiocarbon dating that counts actual C14 atoms; can be used to date items as small as individual seeds

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swidden agriculture

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shifting agriculture in which farmers clear land, burn it off, plant crops, and then move on to new gardens when the land loses its fertility after several years

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Jericho, Jordan Valley

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Biblical city and famous archaeological site w/ evidence of an early fortified town of the 8th millennium BC and of farming settlements as early as 7800 BC

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rachis

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a hinge that joins a seed to a plant

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Ganj Dareh, Iran

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seasonal foraging camp of 8500 BC in Zagros Mountains

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Name the most important responsibility of a leader and how is it accomplished?

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The most important responsibility is to develop an exciting vision for the team to achieve. The objective will be accomplished through the cooperation of the team members.

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Jarmo, Iran

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early farming village in the Zagros Mountains, occupied before 5000 BC

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Merimda Beni Salama, Egypt

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farming settlement in the Egyptian delta dating to about 4500 BC

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Merimda Beni Salama, Egypt

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farming settlement in the Egyptian delta dating to about 4500 BC

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Bandkeramik complex

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cultural label describing the first farmers of central Europe of about 6000 BC, distinguished on the basis of line-decorated pottery

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megaliths

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(from the Greek word for "large stone") stone-built graves, widespread during early farming times in western Europe, generally in the fifth millenium BC

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Mehrgarh, Pakistan

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farming village and trading center west of the Indus River valley, dating to c 6000 BC

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Easton Down, England

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a long communal burial mound dating to c 3200 BC

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Diaotonghuan, China

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early rice-farming settlement in the Yangste River valley dating to between 8000 and 6000 BC

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Xianrengdong, China

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early rice-farming site, c 8000 to 7500 BC

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Pengtoushan, China

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farming settlement in the middle Yangste River valley dating to between 6500 and 5800 BC

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Bashidang, China

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farming village w/ a defensive ditch in the Yangste River valley dating to 7000 BC

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Yangshao culture, China

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widespread farming culture in the Huang Ho valley of northern China after 5000 BC

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Lapita cultural complex

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a series of maritime societies that flourished and traded over an enormous area of the western Pacific, 1600 to 1000 BC and later