Anthropology 5
The average size of the brain of Homo sapiens is _____ cc
1300
A number of theories have been proposed as to why states developed in many parts of the world. They include
all of the above
Among the cultural adaptations Homo erectus may have made is
all of the above
Archaeologists study what ancient peoples ate by
all of the above
In ______, researches from the United States and Germany published findings from mtDNA taken from the original Neandertal and compared it with modern humans, forcing a reconsideration of the relationship of modern humans and Neandertals.
1997
In North America, a settlement with over 100 earthen mounds developed near present day St. Louis represented
a large and powerful chiefdom.
A new invention of the Upper Paleolithic was
all of the above
The subjects of European cave paintings are mostly
animals
Theories about H. sapiens making their way to North America include:
both a and b are correct
In the state, many people are relieved of the need for
food production
The most supported alternative to the Beringia model of movement of Native Americans to the Americas is that they came
from Asia by boat
Archaeologists do not always agree on how to define a state, but most think the characteristics include
hierarchal and centralized decision-making
In Ali Kosh in southwestern Iran after about 5500 B.C., ________ were two important innovations.
irrigation and the use of domesticated cattle
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of culture?
it is not important to modern humans
Early Neandertals and early modern humans got their food in a variety of ways. Why?
it varied with their environment whether semiarid desert or cold tundra
The widening of the female pelvis is related to
larger brained babies
The fundamental difference between culture and most other forms of animal behavior is that culture is
learned and shared
Why does the presence of tools means culture existed?
making tools is a pattern of behavior shared by a group of individuals
Settled life is called
sedentarism
Bipedal locomotion, walking on two legs, was not the only change that occurred during early hominid evolution. Included were
the expansion of the brain
Bipedalism freed the hands, which allowed tools to be carried. This was an advantage because
the tools could be used as weapons against predators, if necessary.
Intermediate Theories have some relevance in the discussion of human origins because
they try to explain the replacement of one population by another and some interbreeding between early modern humans and other populations.
The first clear evidence of stone tools appears more than _____ million years after the appearance of bipedalism
2
According to the model of human evolution in ember and ember, the presumed common ancestor of apes and modern humans lived about _______ million years ago
6
Homo erectus had a brain of about ____ percent of modern humans.
70
The tool tradition identified with Homo erectus is the
Acheulian
As humans began to domesticate plants, these plants became different than the wild varieties. Why?
Actually, there were no differences
Food production developed because of
all of the above
The genus Australopithecus were definitely hominid based on the fact
all of the above
The rise of food production led to
all of the above
There are numerous explanations as to why states would decline and collapse over time. They include
all of the above
What characterizes early Homo so that we begin to see the start of new trends in hominid evolution?
all of the above
Which of the following hominid characteristics came first?
bipedalism
What makes Ardipithecus ramidus unique is that it
combined apelike dentition with bipedalism
Archaeologists speak of domestication only when there is evidence that plants and animals show a _____ wild plants and animals.
difference from
At present, archaeologists define the Neolithic in terms of the presence of
domesticated plants and animals
The innovation having the most lasting importance for humans, both in the Old and New Worlds was
domestication of plants and animals
The sequence of food acquisition was
hunting to collecting to agriculture
To explain why human evolution would proceed gradually and in the same direction in various parts of the Old World, multiregional theorists point to cultural improvements in _______.
hunting tools and cooking technology
The two main theories about the origin of Modern humans are the single-origin theory and the ____ theory.
multi-regional
An archaeological site in Colorado shows that early hunters were
organized and worked together
Archaic peoples of North America began to follow a more _____ lifestyle.
sedentary
What is the major principle of Single-Origin Theory?
that Neandertals did not evolve into modern humans but instead became extinct
Archaeologists can determine if an ancient society had different socioeconomic classes of people by
the differences in house size and furnishings.
Anthropologists speculate that early stone tools found in East Africa were made by
Early Homo
Undisputed bipedal early hominids lived in ____ about 4 million years ago.
East Africa
Toward the end of the Acheulian period, a technique developed that enable the toolmaker to produce flake tools of a predetermined size, the ______ method.
Levalloisian
_______ are very tiny blade tools.
Microliths