Anthropology Quiz 3

Pressure flaking would be used in the __________ of making a tool.

final stages

The earliest Australopithecine species, anamensis, is dated to about __________ million years ago.

3.9-4.2

The first evidence of writing in Sumer is found about __________ B.C.

3000

By about __________ B.C., archaeologists had found most of the major characteristics of civilizations.

3500

Which of the following is not a theory about what happened to the Neandertals?

multi-national

In Ali Kosh in southwestern Iran after about 5500 B.C., __________ were two important innovations.

irrigation and use of domesticated cattle

__________ and her colleagues presented evidence that the modern ancestor of people in the United States, New Guinea, Africa, and East Asia lived about 200,000 years ago.

Rebecca Cann

The first hominid species to be widely distributed in the Old World was __________.

Homo Erectus

The first early hominid found outside East Africa is __________.

A. bahreighazali

With the drying trend of 16 to 11 million years ago, the area called the ________ expanded in Africa.

savanna

Anthropologist Donald Johanson found 40 percent of the skeleton of a female hominid at Hadar; he named it __________ after the Beatles song.

Lucy

The Leakeys worked for almost 30 years at __________ before finding a hominid fossil, A. boisei.

Olduvai Gorge

The fossil that Raymond Dart discovered was that of __________

a young child

__________ spear points are found in many locations in North America.

clovis

At present, archaeologists define the Neolithic in terms of the presence of __________.

domesticated plants and animals

In the state, many people are relieved of the need for __________.

food production

The widening of the female pelvis is related to __________.

larger brained babies

Some archaeologists suggest that states first evolved in __________.

mesopotamia

Differences in Neandertal skulls from modern human skulls include the following, except for ___________.

protruding chins

Animals were first domesticated in __________.

the middle east

The only source of change for mitochondrial DNA is random mutation, which is thought to occur at the rate of __________.

2% per million years

Archaeologists believe some populations at the end of the Upper Paleolithic times were induced to alter their food-getting strategies due to __________.

environmental changes

The average size of the brain of Homo sapiens is _________ cc.

1300

The earliest identifiable stone tools from East Africa date from about __________ million years ago.

2.5

The first clear indication of a changeover to food production took place in the Near East about __________.

8,000 BC

A. anamensis has been found in several locations in __________.

Kenya

Darwin's The Origin of Species was published in __________.

1859

A negative result of the development of states is __________

all of the above

The earliest evidence of domesticated dogs comes from a site in northern Israel dated to about __________ years ago.

15,000

Recent finds in Africa date Homo sapiens to about __________ years ago.

160,000

At ___________, a stack of seven bear skulls was found with evidence of Neandertal habitation.

Drachenloch cave

In __________, researchers from the United States and Germany published findings from mtDNA taken from the original Neandertal and compared with modern humans, forcing a reconsideration of the relationship of modern humans and Neandertals.

1997

Domestication in Africa is dated to around __________.

6,000 BC

A major reason for the decline of states appears to be __________

Environmental degradation

The Upper Paleolithic is characterized by a preponderance of blades and also __________.

all of the above

Most archaeologists believe that the __________ was one of the earliest centers of plant and animal domestication.

Fertile Crescent

Which of the following hominid characteristics came first?

bipedalism