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neolithic revolution
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| def: childe's term for the far-reaching consequences of food production |
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| def: neo = new, lith = stone. New Stone Age; period of farmers |
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craft specialization
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| def: economic system that allows individuals to devote full time to certain occupations |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| def: cultural activities associated with planting, herding, and processing domesticated species; farming |
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| def: mutually advantageous associated of two different organisms; also known as mutualism. |
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| def: permanent springs or water holes in an arid region |
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| def: any process resulting in the formation or growth of deserts |
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| def: farming method in which only hand tools are used; typical of most early neolithic societies |
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| def: pertaining to the size or rate of increase of human population |
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| def: the short stem by which an individual seed attaches to the main stalk of a plant as it develops |
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| def: a plant that is wholly dependent on humans; a domesticate. |
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| def: the analysis and interpretation of the remains of ancient plants recovered from the archaeological record |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| def: microscopic grains containing the male gametes of seed-producing plants |
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| def: phyto = plant, lith = stone. microscopic silica structures formed in the cells of many plants. |
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| def: cassava, a starchy edible root crop of the tropics |
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| def: a dry highland region on the boundary of the states of puebla and oaxaca in southern mexico |
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| 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. |
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| def: wild plants fostered by human efforts to make them more productive |
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| def: small-grained cereal grass native to asia and africa |
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| def: cereal grass; some subspecies are grown for food grains, other for their sweet, juicy stalk |
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| def: species of tropical plant with an edible starchy root. |
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| def: fine-grained soil composed of glacially pulverized rock, deposited by the wind. |
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| def: literally, "lined pottery"; refers to a neolithic ceramic ware widely encountered in central europ and to the culture that produced it |
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| def: deposited by streams, usually during flood stages |
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| def: seed-bearing member of the genus chenopodium, cultivated by early peruvians. |
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| def: a native grass of souther mexico, belived to be ancestral to maize |
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| periodic climatic instability, related to temporary warming of pacific ocean waters, which may incfluence storm patterns and precipitation for several years. |
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| underground chambers or rooms used for gatherings and ceremonies by pueblo dwellers |
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trace-element analysis
ch. 14 |
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| 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 |
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| early neolithic sites found here |
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