Visit this website on maize domestication, read though all pages (navigation on left side of page), and answer the following questions: Chapter 2 The story of maize | The Pueblo Farming Project (crowcanyon.org) (Links to an external site.)

1) What plant is the wild species from which maize was derived? Where did the first domestication of maize take place?

2) What are the traditional direct-precipitation farming techniques that are described on the site?

3) Select the “What we learned” tab on the left. What kinds of soils did most of the varieties of maize favor? Did the experimental farms have low or high yields of maize at harvest? How did they explain their yield?
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8- half a page Go to the website Çatalhöyük Research Project | Excavations of a neolithic anatolian höyük (catalhoyuk.com) (Links to an external site.)

1) Were the people living at Catalhoyuk hunter-gatherers, farmers, or both? Explain the evidence behind your response.

2) What did the general house layout look like for this community?

3) Describe what pottery found in the West Mound can tell us about the site.