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Description acceptable. Andrew Sherratt has proposed that the continuation of this process involved the exploitation of “secondary products.” This process was driven by the need to project power according to Brian Hayden’s “feasting model,” which contradicts Lewis Binford’s view that this process occurred earliest in “marginal zones.” In the book Man Makes Himself, this process’s name was coined along with a later process involving cities by V. Gordon Childe. Based on anthropometric data, Jared Diamond has controversially claimed that this process was the “worst mistake (10[1])in the history (10[1])of the human race.” People in the earliest location to undergo this process (10[1])selected for non-shattering wild einkorn. For 10 points, name this process that first occurred in the “Fertile Crescent,” which involved the abandonment of hunter-gatherer lifestyles. ■END■

ANSWER: Neolithic Revolution [or First Agricultural Revolution; accept any answer that refers to the adoption or invention of agriculture, farming, herding, or pastoralism; accept any answer that refers to the domestication of crops, animals, plants, or wheat; prompt on sedentarism or settlement by asking “alongside what other process?”; prompt on Agricultural Revolution]
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Ethan StrombeckStanford ABerkeley B8410
Vinu HariharBerkeley CStanford C8710
Natan HoltzmanStanford BBerkeley A10010