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What is one characteristic of Neandertals

They could be found in a wide variety of places

Which of the following statements best describes the behavior of Homo floresiensis

This small braned species hunted elephants, made tools with small blades mounted on wooden shafts, and controlled fire.

The type of tool associated with homo erectus is the?

Acheulean hand ax

Which of the following tool types is associated with homo erectus?

Acheulean hand axes

The oldest Homo Habilis and Homo erectus fossils can be found on which continent?

Africa

Archaeological eveidence of hearths from campfires has been found in isreal dating back to about 800,000 years ago

Homo erectus

Which of the following statements best describes the earliest migration of human ancestors out of africa

Homo erectus was the first species to rang out of africa for hunting and gathering

The current prevailing view among scientists is that H. erectus

Split into separate groups, one ancestral to the Neandertals and the other ancestral to anatomically modern humans (AMHs)

Which site in southern France is important because it yielded evidence dating to 300,000 years ago of the ability to build huts and establish seasonal camp site

Terra Amata

Which of the following statements best descrive the cranial capacity (Brain size of Homo erectus compared with the australopithecine average?

The average cranial cap of h erectus is 1,000 cm3

Which of the following statements is true about the skeletons of Homo erectus and modern humans?

The skeleton of H. erectus was similar to modern humans

The species which has been named _______, discovered in 2004 in indonesia, had a cranial capacity smaller than that of a chimp but had surprising abilities to make stone tools and to hunt

Homo floresiensls

A discovery in 1908 of a Neandertal skeleton turned out to be an old name with arthritis, but it gave us the population image of a cave man who cannot walk upright. What is the name of the famous site where this Neandertal was discovered

La Chapelle

What physical characteristic of Homo Erectus allowed it to hunt longer distances?

Longer legs

The species known as homo habilis was first discovered and identified by which famous team of paleoanthropologists in 1960

Louis and mary Leakey

Which of the following groups stayed within a particular territory and did not engage in long-distance trade?

Neandertals

Archaic homo sapiens include which of the following species?

Neandertals and the earliest members of our species

What does the term paleolithic mean?

Old Stone Age

The name for the period during which human ancestors relied on only stone tools is

Paleolithic

The earliest human ancestors appeared during the geological time perios called the ____, which began about two mya and endured until about 11,000 years ago.

Pleistocene

What important information regardinf homo erectus was revealed by the famous fossil find known as Nariokotome boy?

The find suggested that the boy as an adult have reached a height of six feet, approaching the height of modern humans.

In which of the following ways did the neandertals deal with the cold environment that was caused by the Wurm glacial

The made more elaborate tools They wore clothes The hunted mammoths, reindeer, and woolly rhinos.

Which of the following statements about H. antecessors are true?

The species may be a common ancestor of the Neandertals and anatomically modern humans. The first remains discovered date to 78,000 years ago.

Which of the following statements best describes the group that was ancestral to anatomically modern humans

They arrived in Europe from Africa

What is the best explanation of why Homo erectus expanded out of africa into europe and asia

They were following the animals they hunted for meat

What are some physical characteristics of neandertals?

stanting foreheads heavy brow ridges

What ability set apart homo erectus from homo habilis and Au. boisei?

Hunting ability

The first representative of homo habilis was found at

Olducai gorge in tanzania

Where did Tim White discover an important specimen of Homo habilis identified as female in 1986

Olduvai

Which of the following statements about the Denisovans are true?

The split between ancestral Neandertals and Denisovans happened when Neandertals spread to the west and Denisovans headed east The lived in Asia from roughly 400,000 to 500,000 years ago

Fossil finds at a site located at Dmanisi dating to 1.77 mya are significant because

They show when the first human ancestors spread out of africa

The species Homo erectus is associated with which of the following important archeological sites?

Zhoukoudian

Which ability of Homo erecrtus provided against cave bears and saber-tooth tigers during the ice age in the middle east and in southern africa

Control of fire

In 1891 the Fossil called "Java Man" made _____ famous as one of the first scientists to identifying a missing link between apes and humans

Eugene Dubois

In which of the following ways does H. rudolfensis differ from H. Habilis?

H. rudolfensis has canines facing the front of the jaw The H. Habilis skull has a more marked brow ridge

The human Ancestral species ______ is accosiated with the cave site in china known as Zhoukoudian, which contains the hearths and a large amount of tools, animal bones, and the fossilized remains of more than 40 individuals

Homo Erectus

The human ancestral species, _____, dates as far back as 1.4 million years ago and continued to exist even until 500,000 years ago

Homo Erectus

Which human ancestral species was the first to migrate out of africa?

Homo Erectus

Which of the following human ancestral species is associated with the tool type know as Acheulean?

Homo Erectus

Which of the following species was a miniature hominid that lived between 95,000 and 13,000 years ago

Homo Floresiensis

With a cranial capacity of 600 to 700 cubic centimieters, whcih of the following species was the first tool maker and was identified as the first member of the Genus Homo?

Homo Habilis

Fossil remains at several sites in Europe, Africa and asia

Homo Heidelbergensis

Hunting was an important cultural behavior marking a significant step for a human ancestor. Which ancestral species does the fossil record indicate was the earliest sophisticated hunter?

Homo erectus

The acheulean hand ax, associated with the species _____ represents the type of tool that requires a metal template in the mind of the maker, a significant advance in human evolution.

Homo erectus

Which of the following ancestral human species had an avarage cranial capacity of at least 900 cm3?

Homo erectus

Neandertals were resistant to change and were suspicios of outsiders, but members of which group were innovators and had regional social networks

AMHs

What does the name Homo habilis mean?

Able man

H. erectus remains have been found at which places?

Africa java

Which of the following paleoanthropologists made Olduvai gorge in tanzania famous by discovering the first tool maker and the first known representtive of the genes homo

LSB and Mary Leaky

Which os the following paleoanthropologists made Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania famous by discovering the first tool maker and the first known representative of the Genus Homo

L.S.B and Mary Leakey

Which of the following sites is associated with Neandertal?

Neander Valley

Mousterian tools include a wide variety of stone scrapers and notched tools designed to make clothing from animal hides and to be used for sawing and piercing. Which ancestral species made this tool type?

Neandertal

The average cranial capacity of which of the following species exceeded that of modern humans?

Neandertal