Asm Lecture Questions Exam Iii

Front 1

The oldest known stone tools were

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Found in association with Australopithecus Garhi
Are dated to apporximately 2.5 mya

Front 2

Specimens of A Africanus are found in both east and south africa

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False

Front 3

Australopithecus africanus was similar in body size to australopithecus afarensis

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True

Front 4

Australopithecus sediba is similar in body size and limb proportions to other australiopithecines

Back 4

True

Front 5

Which was the first hominid species to have a body size and limb proportions and body size similar to modern humans?

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Homo ergaster

Front 6

Cranial capacity of Homo Erectus

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800-1000

Front 7

Homo Ergaster may have migrated because

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Climate change forced them out of grass lands
And maybe the ability to use tools

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The oldowan industry is part of the

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Lower Paleolithic

Front 9

Which hominid species was present in E Africa around 2 mya?

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P Boisei H Habilis H Rudolfensis

Front 10

Evidence of Cutmarked bones suggest that S Tchadensis was butchering carcasses

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False

Front 11

Between 5 and 2 mya there was an increase in open grassland environments

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True

Front 12

Which of the following is a derived characteristic of the first members of the genus homo

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Larger Brain Size

Front 13

P Robustus is found at which of the following sites?

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Swartkans

Front 14

Stratigraphic correlation allows the relative ages of fossils from different localities to be determined

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True

Front 15

Sedimentary strata produced in association with lakes are referred to as fluvial deposits

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False

Front 16

Which of the following characteristics suggests that Australopithecus afarensis walked bipedally when on the ground?

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Short and broad iliac blades on the pelvis and valgus knee

Front 17

Australopitehcus specimens show a number of primitive ape like cranial features including

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Prognathic face

Front 18

Species in the genus Australopithecus were probably proficient climbers

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True

Front 19

Australopithecus afarensis specimens range in age from 2 to 3 million years old

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True

Front 20

Tephrostratigraphy is the correlation of strata based on

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Tuffs

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Potassium argon method is capable of dating organic materials directly

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False

Front 22

Most early hominid remains have been found in either east or south Africa one notable exception is

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Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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Between 4 and 2 mya there was a decrease in open grassland environments in E Africa

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False

Front 24

Australopithecus anamensis was probably ancestral to Australopithecus afarensis

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True

Front 25

You send off a piece of bone to a dating lab for radiocarbon dating. The lab reports to you that ¾ of the original 14C that was present in the specimen at death has decayed. How old is the specimen? Hint the half life of 14C is 5730 years?

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