Which of the Following Statements Does Not Describe the Development

question 11

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements does not describe the development of plant domestication in the Near East?

• A) It was preceded by a hunting and gathering economy based on small-grain grass and cereal seeds.
• B) It coincides with a cooler and dryer climate.
• C) It is associated with the human dispersal of cereal grasses to the stream valleys.
• D) Epipaleolithic foraging cultures, such as Kebaran and Natufian, took the first steps toward agriculture.
• E) Small- grained grass and wild cereal seeds were not important in earlier hunter gathered diets

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