Animals were first domesticated in __________.

Different than culture, a __________ is a group of people who occupy a particular territory and speak a common language, linked to one another through family, political organization, and business.

The first evidence of writing in Sumer is found about __________ B.C.

When goods or services are given to another without any apparent expectation of a returned gift, we call it __________.

Tools made in the Upper Paleolithic suggest that the people were much more effective hunters and fishers than their predecessors because __________ have been discovered.

Which of the following is not a theory about what happened to the Neandertals?

The first clear indication of a changeover to food production took place in the Near East about __________.

The only source of change for mitochondrial DNA is random mutation, which is thought to occur at the rate of __________.

Of the following animals, which is not believed to have been hunted by Neandertals?

Neandertal habitation sites contain little evidence that they were hunting (tools/fossils of large game).