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The period when modern behavior becomes apparent in the archaeological record is the:
a) Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age b) Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age c) Lower Paleolithic and Early Stone Age d) Neolithic |
a) Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age
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In the Late Stone Age and Upper Paleolithic, stone tools exhibit:
a) stability, remaining essentially unchanged from the Middle paleolithic and Middle Stone Age b) a shift from chipped to ground stone tools c) a shift from flake to blade tools d) an increasing reliance on volcanic as opposed to softer sedimentary rock |
c) a shift from flake to blade tools
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The new archaic Homo from Denisova were determined to be a new, previously unknown variety of hominid on the basis of:
a) skull shape b) limb proportions c) large canine teeth d) DNA differences |
d) DNA differences
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Among the new weapons used in hunting that were developed during the Upper Paleolithic and New Stone Age, were the:
a) spear-thrower and bow and arrow b) bolo and sling c) trebuchet d) handaxe |
a) spear-thrower and bow and arrow
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In the Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age, the subsistence base:
a) shifts from hunting to a reliance on gathered plant foods b) a narrowing of the food quest to a few very productive foods c) a broadening of the food quest to included a greater range of plants and animals d) expanded to included the earliest domesticated plants and animals |
c) a broadening of the food quest to include a greater range of plants and animals
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The increased use of exotic raw materials at Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age sites when compared to Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age sites is evidence:
a) the origins of social stratification b) an expansion of trading networks c) the origins of a merchant class d) an evolving pattern of craft specialization |
b) an expansion of trading networks
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The Upper Paleolithic tradition characterized by finely flaked, symmetrical, leaf-shaped projectile points is called the:
a) Aurignacian b) Gravettian c) Solutrean d) Magdelanian |
c) Solutrean
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The presence of eyed needles in Upper Paleolithic contexts implies:
a) the adornment of bodies with tattoos b) the manufacture of tailored clothing c) the weaving of rugs d) the manufacture of metal objects |
b) the manufacture of tailored clothing
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What had DNA evidence indicated about the phylogenetic position of new archaic Homo from Denisova?
a) There are genetic similarities and differences with modern humans b) Modern humans, Denisovains, and Neandertals are all closely related c) Traces of their DNA is found today in Melanesians, Australian aborigines, & other Southeast Asian islanders d) All of the above |
d) All of the above
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Detailed analyses of the so-called Venus figurines shows that:
a) almost all are depictions of obese, probably pregnant young women, implying that the figurines were symbols of fertility b) most are, in actuality, depictions of males c) they depict a wide range of women, similar to the range of women in a living population d) most are of aged women, suggesting that Upper Paleolithic society highly valued women |
c) they depict a wide range of women, similar to the range of women in a living population
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The earliest settlement of Australia occurred how long ago:
a) after 12,000 years b) after 20,000 years c) before 40,000 years d) before 100,000 years |
c) before 40,000 years
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During glacial maxima and attendant lowered sea level, human groups could have migrated to Australia:
a) by walking across the land bridge connecting Sunda and Sahul b) via dry or only partially wet land by waiting for the tide to go out and walking from island to island across the Wallace Sea c) only by crossing a sea barrier of a minimum of several hundred miles wide across the Wallace Sea d) by a series of hops from island to island across the Wallace Sea |
d) by a series of hops from island to island across the Wallace Sea
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The land mass connecting northeast Asia and northwest North American exposed when sea level was lowered during the Pleistocene is called
a) the Bering Strait b) Beringia c) Sundaland d) The McKenzie Corridor |
b) Beringia
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What artifact does the Denali sites of the American Arctic and Dyuktai have in common?
a) wedge-shaped cores b) bifacial spear points c) fluted points d) bone harpoons |
a) wedge-shaped cores
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Two likely routes humans took into the New World at the end of the Pleistocene are:
a) across the frozen tundra of Antarctica b) across a land bridge linking Scandinavia with Greenland c) along the coast of Beringia and through the Beringian interior d) all of the above |
c) along the coast of Beringia and through the Beringian interior
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When the McKenzie Corridor was available:
a) it must have been a veritable highway for travel into North American from Scandinavia b) ancient hunters could have traveled easily between Alaska and eastern North America c) the movement of people from North America to South America would have been feasible d) people could have moved from northwestern North America into the American Midwest |
d) people could have moved from northwestern North America into the American Midwest
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The ancestors of the people who lived at Monte Verde likely arrived there from Beringia by:
a) an interior route b) a coastal route c) the Amazon d) helicopter |
b) a coastal route
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The oldest human skeletal remains in the New World have been dated to:
a) more than 20,000 years ago b) 16,000 years ago c) 13,000 years ago d) after 10,000 years ago |
c) 13,000 years ago
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The two fluted point traditions of North America listed in the order of their appearance (from older to younger) are:
a) Monte Verde and Meadowcroft b) Scottsbluff and Hell Gap c) Clovis and Folsom d) Folsom and Clovis |
c) Clovis and Folsom
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What happened to a large proportion of the large game animals in North America at the end of the Pleistocene?
a) they journeyed back to Asia on the Bering Land Bridge, following the cold environments to which they were adapted b) they migrated south to the southern tip of South America and from their followed the ice floes to Antarctica c) they became extinct d) they evolved adaptations to the warmer, post-Pleistocene climate |
c) they became extinct
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The name for the stone tool industry associated with the premodern Homo sapiens is:
a) Oldowan b) Acheulean c) Levallois d) Solutrean |
c) Levallois
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The currently accepted view is that Neandertals are:
a) a variety of Homo erectus b) an extinct race of anatomically modern human beings c) one variety of premodern Homo sapiens d) a hoax |
c) one variety of premodern Homo sapiens
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The stereotype of the Neandertals as primitive and ape-like:
a) is now known to be a rather accurate portrayal of this extinct hominid b) was based on the mixing of its bones with those of an ancient ape by an early analyst c) resulted from a late-nineteenth-century fossil hoax d) resulted from a preconception of what an ancient human ancestor should look like |
c) resulted from a late-nineteenth-century fossil hoax
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In terms of overall shape, comparing the profile of a Neandertal cranium with that of an anatomically modern human being is like comparing the profile of a:
a) softball to a hardball b) football to a volleyball c) ping pong ball to a tennis ball d) Frisbee to a boomerang |
b) football to a volleyball
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Compared to modern human beings, the supraorbital region of Neandertals is:
a) smaller b) far more massive c) about the same d) Neandertals has no supraorbital region |
c) about the same
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Based on the fossil record, one key feature lacking in the Neandertal face but present in anatomically modern human beings is:
a) a supraorbital ridge b) a sagittal keel c) a chin d) a projecting nose |
c) a chin
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The sites where the earliest skeletons of anatomically modern Homo sapiens outside of Africa have been found at:
a) Skhul and Qafzeh b) Amud and Tabun c) Shanidar and St. Cesaire d) Kent's Cave and Howe Caverns |
a) Skhul and Qafzeh
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Neandertals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens overlap in time for about how long in Europe:
a) at least 40,000 years b) about 10,000 years c) fewer than 1,000 years d) they don't overlap; the last of the Neandertals died out before the first of the anatomically modern human beings appear |
a) at least 40,000 years
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The fact that the late European Neandertals date so recently and are contemporaries of anatomically modern humans in Europe lends support to the:
a) population replacement model b) multiregional model c) something between replacement and multiregionalism d) Clovis first model |
a) population replacement model
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About what percentage of the genome of modern human beings in Europe and Asia can be traced to Neandertals:
a) 20-25% b) 10-12% c) 1-4% d) 0% |
c) 1-4%
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Homo erectus is the first human ancestor to:
a) walk erect b) use tools c) expand beyond Africa d) migrate into the New World |
c) expand beyond Africa
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Below the skull, the Homo erectus skeleton is:
a) essentially ape-like b) essentially monkey-like c) essentially human-like d) no post-cranial bones of Homo erectus have been found |
c) essentially human-like
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The location of the region in which Zhoukoudian is located shows that Homo erectus:
a) had boats b) could survive in a tropical environment c) could survive in a place with long, cold winters d) could live in a desert |
c) could survive in a place with long, cold winters
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Homo florensiensis can be accurately described as:
a) a diminutive Homo erectus b) a diminutive Homo habilis c) a large-brained chimpanzee d) a small-brained Homo sapien |
a) a diminutive Homo erectus
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The Pleistocene is marked by:
a) a single, long-term advance of glacial ice in the northern latitudes and higher elevations b) four separate phases of advance of glacial ice in the northern latitudes and higher elevations, with warmer periods in between c) worldwide cooling with even tropical areas experiencing significant snowfall d) a complex series of glacial advances and retreats |
d) a complex series of glacial advances and retreats
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The characteristic that enabled Homo erectus to survive during the Pleistocene almost certainly was its:
a) physical adaptation to cold b) ability to migrate out of cold regions c) subsistence emphasis on big game hunting d) adaptive flexibility made possible by culture |
d) adaptive flexibility made possible by culture
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The stone tool industry of Homo erectus involving the production of symmetrical, sometimes artfully rendered handaxes is called:
a) Acheulean b) Oldowan c) Mousterian d) Geometric Kebaran |
a) Acheulean
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Archaeological evidence for hunting by Homo erectus includes:
a) animal bones with stone tool cutting marks b) wooden hunting spears c) stone cutting tools that would have been useful in butchering d) all of the above |
d) all of the above
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The term "secondarily altricial" can be applied justifiably to ancestral hominids like Homo erectus and modern humans as well. This means:
a) our arms are proportionally short compared to our legs b) we do not have opposable big toes c) we give birth to offspring one at a time d) hominid babies physically immature at birth and for a lengthy period thereafter |
d) hominid babies physically immature at birth and for a lengthy period thereafter
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What makes the fossils called by their excavators Homo florensiensis so remarkable:
a) the small size of their brains b) the sophistication of their stone tools c) their very recent date d) all of the above |
d) all of the above
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