Practice question · Multiple choice
Building Göbekli Tepe required feeding a large workforce, and the site's inhabitants were foragers. What does the site suggest about causation?
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- Ask what feeding hundreds of workers repeatedly would require of the local food supply.
- The standard model has the surplus first. What does this site put first?
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D. That gathering crowds may have driven food production
Why
Assembling and feeding crowds creates a recurring demand that intensified harvesting could meet, so the temple may be a cause of farming rather than its dividend. Wild einkorn's genetic homeland lies about thirty kilometres away, which is what makes the reversal more than a provocation.
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