Neolithic Transition/Sites

Question 1

Mesolithic dates

Answer 1

12,500-10,200 years ago

Question 2

Neolithic Revolution dates

Answer 2

10,000 years ago

Question 3

Mesolithic locations and characteristics

Answer 3

Israel, Lebanon, Syria. Natufian culture. More settled than Paleolithic, cemeteries, storage pits and sickles

Question 4

Neolithic Revolution Where and the Result

Answer 4

Same time in multiple regions. Food production and sedentism

Question 5

Why might sedentism have occurred?

Answer 5

Sea levels rising, abolishing land bridges

Question 6

Earliest evidence of domestication

Answer 6

Cave in Peru. 11,500-10,700 ya lower altitude plants in upper altitude environments

Question 7

Cultigens

Answer 7

Plants that can’t disperse their own seeds

Question 8

First place domestication started

Answer 8

Fertile Crescent 12,000 years ago. Climate change affecting seasonality

Question 9

Catalhyuk

Answer 9

Turkey, 9,000 BP, Floorboard burials, painted walls, houses so close you have to go in through roof. Egalitarian. 10,000 plus people might be considered town

Question 10

Jericho

Answer 10

Jordan Valley, 10,300 BP, good agricultural conditions, tell site(village built up over time into mound), longest occupied city, egalitarian, storage, cemetery, 12 ft high wall, had domesticated species, mud brick houses about 600 people.

Question 11

Stonehenge

Answer 11

Took 1500 years to make, stones brought from 150 miles away, stones up to 50 tons and 25ft high.

Question 12

Social structure during neolithic

Answer 12

egalitarian, no government or elites, small communities