1) Describe how anthropologists define “hunter-gatherers” as a social group – beyond a description of how the acquire their food and other resources.
2) Explain how the domestication of plant and animal species by humans has had an impact on other species as well.
3) How have recent genetic analyses changed assumptions about the origins and spread of agriculture in the Near East?
4) Discuss the differences between traditional environmental theories for the origins of agriculture and sedentism, and Professor Hodder’s ideas.
5) How many different areas of the world produced domesticated animals? List them, with some (or all) of those species. Which surprised or intrigued you the most, and why?