anthropocene

Question 1

when were wolves domesticated?

Answer 1

~ 36,000 y/a

Question 2

what was grown in the Near East/ Levant?

Answer 2

emmer wheat and legumes

Question 3

what enabled agriculture?

Answer 3

• irrigation
• deforestation
• food storage

Question 4

evidence of convergent evolution in humans and dogs

Answer 4

• digestion, cancer, metabolism, neurology

- cognitive similarity

Question 5

hyp for environmental change and its effect on agriculture

Answer 5

agricultural origins with the end of the Pleistocene but was not the only climate event so agriculture delayed globally

Question 6

how did population change affect agriculture?

Answer 6

population growth forces foragers to adopt agriculture because wild resources became so scarce that eventually farming is worth doing

Question 7

which 6 areas did civilisation develop?

Answer 7

• Ancient Egypt
• Mesopotamia
• Indus Valley
• Ancient China
• S America
• Mesoamerica

Question 8

early anthropocene hyp

Answer 8

• based on the length of previous interglacials, earth should be returning to glacial
• however, 8,000 y/a, climate records demonstrated deviation from this trend

Question 9

neolithic Britain and Ireland

Answer 9

• monument building (Stonehenge)
• pottery
• agriculture in Wessex, E Anglia, Cumbria
• deforestation, rise in cereal pollen and weeds
• followed by a period of abandonment so forests returned

Question 10

bronze and Iron Age in Britain

Answer 10

• tech
• first major settlements and veg clearance became permanent
• start of Iron Age c. 2700 y/a, most of S Britain for agriculture
• unexploited areas woodlands cleared