Practice question · Estimate
Farming was invented independently, with no contact between the regions. How many separate centres are generally recognized?
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 20.
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- More than a couple, far fewer than twenty.
- Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, New Guinea, West Africa, eastern North America.
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7 (answers within ±1.5 count)
Why
At least seven, on five continents, within a few thousand years of each other, the strongest possible evidence that the trigger was the global Holocene rather than any local genius.
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