Reading | Question 1 of 14

According to paragraph 1, which of the following is true of early food production by the end of the Pleistocene?

  • In certain areas of western and central Africa, some people were already growing root plants such as yams.
  • The cultivation of cereal crops had already been used effectively and widely by people living on the fringes of ram forests.
  • Sophisticated forms of "vegeculture" were introduced for the first time in central and western Africa by people from the Sahara's southern borders.
  • The cultivation of root and tree crops replaced the cultivation of cereal crops because of decreasing summer rainfall in grassland areas.
Early Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa