Practice question · Put in order
Order the post-glacial transition.
- Broad-spectrum foraging and microlith toolkits spread
- The last glaciation ends; the Holocene begins
- Rich foraging zones support permanent Natufian villages
- Farming begins, among people who already lived in villages
- Forests advance and herd animals give way to solitary game
Hints
- Warming precedes the sea-level rise.
- Settlement appears before farming, not after it.
Show the answer
- The last glaciation ends; the Holocene begins
- Forests advance and herd animals give way to solitary game
- Broad-spectrum foraging and microlith toolkits spread
- Rich foraging zones support permanent Natufian villages
- Farming begins, among people who already lived in villages
Why
The order is the argument. Sedentism sits above farming on this list, not below it, and that single inversion rewrites the standard origin story of civilization.
Practise The Mesolithic Transition
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