The word "ensured" in the passage is closest in meaning to

According to paragraph 1, the earliest attempts to explain the Neolithic Revolution made all of the following assumptions EXCEPT

According to paragraph 2, which of the following is a fact that calls into question earlier ideas about the transition to agriculture?

In paragraph 3, why does the author report what members of a foraging community in the Kalahari Desert told a researcher?

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According to paragraph 4. foragers were generally less subject to disease than were farmers in large part because

Paragraph 4 suggests that which of the following was true of diseases such as smallpox and flu during Neolithic times?

Paragraph 5 suggests that most accounts of the origins of agriculture lack an explanation of which of the following?

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It was once thought that the transition from foraging to settled agriculture was easily explained.