Practice question · Multiple choice
Natufian settlements show sedentism centuries before any domesticated crop appears. Which standard sequence does that break?
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D. Farming before villages: they settled while still foraging
Why
Rich wild stands supported permanent settlement first, and staying put is what made planting and harvesting worth doing, the arrow runs the other way. It belongs with Göbekli Tepe as one of the reversals that dismantled the surplus-then-complexity sequence.
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