Larson - Our Last 10,000 Years

Question 1

As towns and cities began to compete for increasingly limited sources ?

Answer 1

Organized warfare developed

Question 2

Comparisons of the bones from hunter gatherers to later agriculturalists to modern people

Answer 2

Show a remarkable decline in size

Question 3

The masticatory functional hypothesis

Answer 3

States that change in skull from represent a response to decreased demands on the chewing muscles

Question 4

Modern diseases made possible by overcrowding include, but are not limited to

Answer 4

Measles
Mumps
Cholera
Smallpox
Influenza

Question 5

Agricultural foods shifted nutrition from a generalized diet to one focused on

Answer 5

Carbohydrates

Pooper quality protein

Question 6

Agriculture resulted in

Answer 6

Population sedentism and crowding

Question 7

Hunter gatherers skeletons tend to show

Answer 7

Higher levels of activity

Question 8

Prior to the transition to agriculture sites?

Answer 8

Rarely demonstrated evidence of violence and never of organized warfare