Term
| neolithic revolution
ch. 14 |
|
Definition
|
def: childe's term for the far-reaching consequences of food production
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: neo = new, lith = stone. New Stone Age; period of farmers
|
|
|
Term
| craft specialization
ch. 14 |
|
Definition
|
def: economic system that allows individuals to devote full time to certain occupations
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: the idea that widely distributed cultrual traits originated in a single center and were spread from one group to another through contact or exchange
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: a state of interdependence between humans and selected plant or animal species. intense selection activity induces permanent genetic change, enhancing a species' value to humans
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: cultural activities associated with planting, herding, and processing domesticated species; farming
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: mutually advantageous associated of two different organisms; also known as mutualism.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: permanent springs or water holes in an arid region
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: any process resulting in the formation or growth of deserts
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: farming method in which only hand tools are used; typical of most early neolithic societies
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: pertaining to the size or rate of increase of human population
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: the short stem by which an individual seed attaches to the main stalk of a plant as it develops
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: a plant that is wholly dependent on humans; a domesticate.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: the analysis and interpretation of the remains of ancient plants recovered from the archaeological record
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: plant parts such as seeds, nutshells, and stems, preserved in the archaeological record and large enough to be clearly visible to the naked eye
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: small to microscopic plant remains, most falling in a range of 10-100 microns, or roughly the size of individual grains of wheat flour in the bag from your grocer's shelf
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: microscopic grains containing the male gametes of seed-producing plants
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: phyto = plant, lith = stone. microscopic silica structures formed in the cells of many plants.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: cassava, a starchy edible root crop of the tropics
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: a dry highland region on the boundary of the states of puebla and oaxaca in southern mexico
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: african hunter-gatherers who made early use of wild cereal grasses on the southern edge of the sahara between 12,000 and 9,000 ya.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: wild plants fostered by human efforts to make them more productive
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: small-grained cereal grass native to asia and africa
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: cereal grass; some subspecies are grown for food grains, other for their sweet, juicy stalk
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: species of tropical plant with an edible starchy root.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: fine-grained soil composed of glacially pulverized rock, deposited by the wind.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: literally, "lined pottery"; refers to a neolithic ceramic ware widely encountered in central europ and to the culture that produced it
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: deposited by streams, usually during flood stages
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: seed-bearing member of the genus chenopodium, cultivated by early peruvians.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
def: a native grass of souther mexico, belived to be ancestral to maize
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
periodic climatic instability, related to temporary warming of pacific ocean waters, which may incfluence storm patterns and precipitation for several years.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
underground chambers or rooms used for gatherings and ceremonies by pueblo dwellers
|
|
|
Term
| trace-element analysis
ch. 14 |
|
Definition
|
a chemical technique for measuring the incidence of microminerals, or trace elements, in rocks; applied by archaeologists to identify the source areas of rocks used as raw materials by humans
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
early neolithic sites found here
|
|
|
