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61 Cards in this Set
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Some Homo erectus finds have been dated to:
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1.8 Million years and the dates are controversial
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____________ climate changes are believed to be partially responsible for the rapid thrust of human biological and cultural evolution.
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Ice Age
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Like their predecessors, a major element in Homo ergaster adaptation to environmental change was:
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Mobility
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The earliest known wooden throwing spears, found in Schoningen, Germany, date to ___________ years ago.
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400,000
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As opportunistic foragers, _______________ probably radiated out of Africa because they followed other mammals.
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Homo ergaster
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Hunting and killing large herbivores would have required group cooperation and communication among Homo erectus. Evidence for this may exist at:
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Torralba
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The lifestyle of the Homo erectus:
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A.) Utilized a variety of subsistence strategies
B.) Opportunistically adapted C.) Mobile and migratory |
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Bamboo artifacts are ideal for people living off of:
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Monkeys, rats, lizards and snakes
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Homo erectus specimens from Africa, Asia, and Europe all share primitive features such as heavy brow ridges and:
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Bun-shaped skull caps
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Fossil skulls from each continent vary considerably, yet increase in cranial size, brain size, and round shape. The variations, however, point towards a European evolution into:
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Homo sapiens Neanderthals
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How long ago did the Neanderthals disappear from the archaeological record?
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30,000 years ago
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Neanderthal populations possessed advanced cognitive skills that included ecological knowledge of local environments, observations of migration seasons and sequences, animal movements, and herd sizes. This allowed them to:
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Store food and maximize meat resources
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Many believe that modern humans differ from Neanderthals by virtue of their:
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Fluent and articulate speech
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Evidence of an increasingly complex cultural system includes a belief in an afterworld. The first human populations to leave archaeological evidence of this trait are:
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Neanderthals
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Archaeological evidence from Herto supports the appearance of modern humans no later than ___________ years ago.
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160,000
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Carbon 14 dating enabled archaeologists to begin comparing prehistoric societies and marked the onset of consistent comparative analysis; another significant milestone in the study of human kind is:
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Mitochondrial DNA analysis
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The hypothesis that assumes population movement came from a single point of origin:
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Out of Africa
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The candelabra model of human evolution posits:
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A multiregional origin for Homo sapiens
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According to Gunter Brauer, there are at least ________ species of Homo sapiens in sub-Saharan Africa:
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3
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This chapter in our Prehistoric past has been:
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In need of a larger data base
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Like other hominins, Homo erectus was confined to Africa:
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False
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Homo erectus lacked a well-developed Broca’s area, the part of the brain associated with language ability:
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False
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Homo ergaster migrated out of Africa, as did other mammals, who shared his ecological community:
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True
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The archaeological evidence suggests that Homo erectus evolved towards modern forms of humans between 600,000 and 130,000 years ago:
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True
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Bamboo was rarely used as a tool-making material because of its brittle nature:
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False
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Neanderthals never developed specialized tools, instead relying on multipurpose tools:
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False
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A composite tool is an artifact made up of more than one part:
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True
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The first signs of religious beliefs are found in Neanderthal burials:
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True
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Analysis of large databases of DNA suggests a primary split between Africans and non-Africans followed by a later split between Eurasians and Southeast Asians:
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True
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The primary evidence for the Out-Of-Africa hypothesis is mitochondrial DNA:
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True
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Cro-Magnon art is limited to cave painting near Altimira, France, and in Spain:
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False
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Some archaeologists believe that the archaeologists the cultural “explosion” about 50,000 years ago resulted from the evolution of cognitive fluidity.
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True
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Full cognitive fluidity results from forming connections between the mental domains of environmental, technical, and social intelligence:
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True
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The last Ice Age glacial period reached its greatest extent about 250,000 years ago:
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False
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The people who colonized Sahul had to make an open-water passage of 62 miles, and they did so by c. 40,000 years ago:
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True
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Families living in caves on New Guinea were using fish as a major resource before 35,000 years ago:
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True
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The Asian and Australian populations during the Ice Age were less diverse creative in their environmental adaptation than late Ice Age Europeans:
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False
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Ironically, the people who settled Madagascar came from Malaysia:
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True
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The symbolic interpretation of Ice Age art is easily revealed through analysis of artifact forms:
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False
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The base camp at Mezhirich (Eurasia) contained amber from Kiev and shell from the Black Sea, artifact evidence of a wide-ranging trade network:
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True
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Siberia was settled by the slow, northeasterly movement of big game hunters from the East European plain:
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False
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There is reliable evidence that northeastern Asia was settled by modern humans as early as 40,000 years ago:
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False
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The crowns and roots of human teeth are useful indicators of the degree to which prehistoric populations were related:
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True
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During the Ice Age, much of the Bering Sea was dry land:
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True
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The case of the settlement of the Americans 30,000 or more years before the present, rests on a handful of sites, most of them in South America:
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True
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A Clovis point is a fine, fluted point or flint or other fine grained rock:
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True
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The areas of the globe most recently settled by modern humans were:
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Tahiti, Hawaii, and Madagascar
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People possessed the knowledge and technology to traverse deep water before they:
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Learned to plant crops
Learned to domesticate animals Learned to create pots from clay |
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Anatomically modern humans first lived on New Guinea no later than __________ years ago:
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40,000
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Studies of dental morphology indicate Native Americans are:
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Sinodonts
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Tundra hunters lived:
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In small, flexible bands
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Most American archaeologists believe that Americans were peopled no earlier than __________ years ago:
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15,000
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The Monte Verde site in Northern Chile provides reliable evidence of settlement dated to about __________ years ago:
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12,000
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Precursors of the Clovis people appeared _________ years ago at Hidden Mammoth:
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11,800
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Artifacts analyzed according to form have helped distinguished differences in:
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Tool traditions
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The Cro-Magnons entered Europe during:
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A temperate climate
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Paleolithic cave art usually depicts:
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Animals
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Shamans possess __________ and are often perceived as being able to communicate with ancestors, animals, and a variety of gods and spirits.
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Extraordinary spiritual powers
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People commonly call the early modern humans living in Europe:
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Cro-Magnons
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The D’uktai people lived in:
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Siberia
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The earliest Paleo-Indians are known as the ____________ people:
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Clovis
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