Andrea (“ahn-DRAY-uh”) Matranga’s paper “The Ant and the Grasshopper” hypothesizes that increased seasonality due to the end of this period led to the development of agriculture. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this period. At the end of this period, rising sea levels took away the Bering land bridge that humans had used to migrate to the Americas.
ANSWER: the Ice Age [accept last glacial period or last glacial cycle or LGP or LGC; accept the last Ice Age; prompt on Late Pleistocene; reject “Little Ice Age”]
[10h] According to Matranga’s theory, increased seasonality in the Ice Age made humans use farming to engage in this economic behavior. Somebody engaged in this behavior typically saves little as a young adult, but more in middle age.
ANSWER: consumption smoothing
[10m] Matranga’s theory of farming as consumption smoothing partially rebuts a theory that hunter-gatherers were the original one of these constructs, as proposed by Marshall Sahlins to reference a book by John Kenneth Galbraith.
ANSWER: affluent society [accept “the original affluent society”]
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