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the differences in house size and furnishings.
Archaeologists can determine if an ancient society had different socioeconomic classes of people by
they wanted to know what the tools were used for.
Archaeologists have experimented with the Oldowan tools. They did this because
sedentarism
Settled life is called
about the same as in Homo sapiens
Sexual dimorphism in Homo erectus is
Maglemosians
Some adaptations to the changing environment can be seen in the cultural remains of the settlers in northern Europe called
3100
The Old Kingdom of Egypt began about __________ B.C.
Homo Erectus
The first hominid species to be widely distributed in the Old World was
40,000
The period of culture history known as the Upper Paleolithic dates from about ______ years ago
animals were driven out of their hiding places into hunters positioned downwind
When Homo erectus hunted they may have used fire. How would this be an advantage?
bipedalism
Which of the following hominid characteristics came first?
they diminish the chances of survival and reproduction
Why are maladaptive customs likely to disappear from a society?
fossil evidence shows what looks like planned burial sites
Why do we think it possible that Neandertals had funeral rituals?
while there is evidence of cave dwelling, there is also evidence of open-air sites as well
Why have some anthropologists concluded that Neandertals may have had homesites outside of caves?
Pleistocene megafauna.
Large game animals of the Upper Paleolithic period were known as
they may give hints as to what could happen in our present world.
Many anthropologists are interested in the reasons ancient civilizations collapsed because
culture actually refers to rules and ideas behind culture
Many cognitive anthropologists feel that culture is in people's heads because
Caves
Many of the excavated home sites from the Middle Paleolithic from Europe and the Near East are located in
hierarchical and centralized decision making affecting a substantial population.
Most archaeologists agree that the key criterion for a state is
Fertile Crescent
Most archaeologists believe that the __________ was one of the earliest centers of plant and animal domestication.
caves and rock shelters
Most of the remains that have been excavated from Upper Paleolithic sites have been found in
Asia
Native Americans originally came from
sedentary
Natufians were
they became extinct when they were driven away from food sources by modern humans
Neandertals and modern humans seemed to have coexisted in Europe and the Near East for at least 20,000 years. What is the best explanation to describe what happened to the Neandertals?
400,000
New evidence suggests that people were hunting big game as long as _________ years ago.
cultural behavior is not innate and it has to be learned
One of the biggest differences between culture and other forms of animal behavior is that in culture, it is learned and shared. Why is this so?
Art
One of the more stunning developments in the Upper Paleolithic was the development of
It was one of the most complete skeletons found
One of the most famous A. afarensis fossils is named Lucy. Why is it so famous?
It refers to innumerable aspects of life.
One thing that can be said about culture is
by allowing for larger populations.
One way states change the lifestyles of people is
Homo sapiens sapiens
Only __________ fossils have been found in North and South America.
160,000
Recent finds in South Africa date Homo sapiens to about __________ years ago.
humans were living South of Canada around 11,000 years ago.
Regarding the New World, anthropologists seem to agree that
africanus
Robust australopithecines include all of the following except
Mesopotamia
Some archaeologists suggest that states first evolved in
cuneiform
Sumerian writing is called
has existed in people known to anthropologists
A complex system of spoken, symbolic communication, which we call "language"
declining health
A consequence of the rise in food production include
- that a drastic change in climate caused domestication in the Near East. - that culture had to evolve enough to handle it. - that people were simply not ready earlier to achieve domestication. **All the above**
A theory to explain why food production eventually developed is
They were the first hominid species to be widely distributed in the Old World
About 1.8 million years ago a remarkable hominid species existed (Homo erectus). What made them remarkable?
- the oceans to rise - seas to move inland - the water to inundate some of the rich coastal plains. **All the above**
About 10,000 years ago, the glaciers began to disappear causing
6
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
the hands were freed for other tasks
All of the following are "costs" of bipedalism except
macrobands
Among archaic peoples of Mesoamerica, ___________ were located near seasonally abundant resources.
- use of fire. - use of clothing. - better organization for scavenging, hunting, and defense against predators. **All the above**
Among the cultural adaptations Homo erectus may have made is
Lucy
Anthropologist Donald Johanson found 40 percent of the skeleton of a female hominid at Hadar, which he named __________ after the Beatles song.
Early Homo
Anthropologists speculate that early stone tools found in East Africa were made by
- They stand in the way of open-mindedness. - judging other cultures solely in terms of their own culture is restrictive thinking. - they don't allow a more complete understanding of the population being studied. **all of the above**
Anthropologists try very hard to eliminate ethnocentric thoughts and behaviors in their work because
learned and shared.
Anthropologists, as well as other social scientists, feel that culture is
- there is often a difference between ideal behavior and actual behavior. - the ideal is based on the way a society used to be. - ideal behavior may be what they would like to see as correct behavior. **all of the above**
Anthropologists, when studying culture, try to distinguish actual behavior from ideas about how people ought to feel and behave. This is because
difference from
Archaeologists speak of domestication only when there is evidence that plants and animals show a ______ wild plants and animals.
sedentary
Archaic peoples of North America began to follow a more ______ lifestyle.
domesticated plants and animals.
At present, archaeologists define the Neolithic in terms of the presence of
symbolic
Because a word or phrase can represent what it stands for, whether or not that thing is present, we say that language is
the expansion of the brain
Bipedal locomotion, walking on two legs, was not the only change that occurred during early hominid evolution. Included were
- It's harder to overcome gravity to supply brain with sufficient blood. - the weight on the body above the pelvis and lower limbs causes stress on the hips, lower back, knees, and feet. - females even have more stress during pregnancy **All the Above**
Bipedalism does have its downside, including:
the tools could be used as weapons against predators, if necessary
Bipedalism freed the hands, which allowed tools to be carried. This was an advantage because
to harvest wild grain intensively
The Natufians had tools, like sickles, which allowed them
Middle Stone Age
The Neandertal period in Africa is called the
vast supplies of meat were available
The Upper Paleolithic cultures relied on hunting for food. Why?
Monte Verde
The ________ site in Chile suggests that humans got to South America by about 12,500 to 33,000 years ago.
Extinction
The ___________scenario has the clearest archaeological evidence to support it.
cultural relativism
The anthropological attitude that a society's customs and ideas should be described objectively and understood in the context of that society's problems and opportunities is called
at the height of its power the city occupied an area larger than imperial Rome
The city of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica was very influential at its peak. Why?
cultural elements or traits are adjusted to or constant with one another.
The concept of cultural integration means that
food sharing.
The creation of home bases or home ranges among early Homo groups may have increased the likelihood of
3.9 - 4.2
The earliest Australopithecine species, anamensis, is dated to about ______ million years ago.
Monte Alban.
The earliest city-state in Mesoamerica was probably
2.5
The earliest identifiable stone tools from East Africa date from about ________million years ago.
there were no social differences in Highland Mesoamerica
The evidence available shows that the Archaic people of Highland Mesoamerica were different than the Natufians in that
3500
By about __________ B.C., archaeologists had found most of the major characteristics of civilizations.
agriculture started later in the New World.
Cities and states emerged in Mesoamerica later than the Near East because
3500 BC
Cities first appeared in the Near East about
35,000
Cro-Magnon first appeared in Europe about _________ years ago.
it varied with their environment whether semiarid desert or cold tundra
Early Neandertals and early modern humans got their food in a variety of ways. Why?
Paleo-Indians.
Early New World hunters are called
observing the usage of tools by contemporary societies to determine how they might have been used thousands of years ago.
Ethnographic analogy is a method of study based on reasoning. An example would be
how members of a society respond when the norm is violated.
Every culture has norms or standards of what is acceptable behavior. The importance of a norm is usually determined by
- climate change. - population pressure. - shortage of desired products. **All the above**
Food production developed because of
learned and commonly shared.
For something to be cultural, it must be
Small Villages
From the time agriculture developed in the Near East to about 6000 B.C., people in the Near East lived in
the development of more efficient tool making and consequently more efficient scavenging and foraging.
Full bipedalism may have made possible
Greater
Generally, the greater the sexual dimorphism, the _________ the social dominance of males over females.
aethiopicus
Gracile australopithecines include all of the following except
1.8
Homo erectus dates from ________ million years ago.
Laetoli
The famous footprints of Australopithecus were found at
2
The first clear evidence of stone tools appears more than _______ million years after
8,000 BC
The first clear indication of a changeover to food production took place in the Near East about
3000
The first evidence of writing in Sumer is found about __________ B.C
a bell-shaped curve.
The frequency distribution of behavior patterns in a group very often takes the form of
Learned and shared
The fundamental difference between culture and most other forms of animal behavior is that culture is
- their teeth show the basic hominid characteristics. - they were fully bipedal. - they had a parabolic dental arch **All the above**
The genus Australopithecus were definitely hominid based on the fact
consist of the ideas people have about how they ought to behave
The ideal cultural patterns of a society
language
The most powerful transmitter of culture is probably
People settling down
The population of the world seems to have increased dramatically as a result of
- accelerated population growth. - declining health. - elaboration of material possessions. **All the above**
The rise of food production led to
hunting to collecting to agriculture.
The sequence of food acquisition was
humans have powerful muscles at the back of the neck to balance the large head while apes do not need such powerful muscles because the head is balanced on the spinal column angle (much like a fulcrum).
The skeleton of humans differs from that of the great apes in all of the following except
the variant culture of a group of people within a larger society.
The term "subculture" refers to
Acheulian
The tool tradition identified with Homo erectus is the
Clovis complex
The tools found just south of the Rockies on the High Plains are known as the ________.
larger brained babies
The widening of the female pelvis is related to
6
There are at least ______ species of Australopithecus.
- environmental degradation. - incidences of disease increasing with more denser population. - overextension in more and more territory. **all the above**
There are numerous explanations as to why states would decline and collapse over time. They include
Homo erectus populations in various parts of the Old World gradually evolved into anatomically modern looking humans.
There is some belief in a multiregional theory which can best be explained as
hunting tools and cooking technology
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 ______________.
Wild wheat
Tools found at Natufian sites suggest they harvested _________ intensively.
Levalloisian
Toward the end of the Acheulian period, a technique developed that enabled the toolmaker to produce flake tools of a predetermined size, the ____________ method.
- they may have thought that pictures of humans could cause injury or death. - they may have thought theses pictures would improve their luck at hunting. - they may have thought the pictures would increase the supply of animals. **All the above**
Traces of art have been found in Upper Paleolithic sites. Most paintings were only of animals. This is believed to be because
East Africa
Undisputed bipedal early hominids lived in ___________ about 4 million years ago.
socially
Variations in individual behavior are confined within __________ acceptable limits.
very little else was found with the tools that were dug up.
We cannot accurately determine the lifestyle of early hominids from early tool sites because
it is difficult to explore archaeologically.
We do not know when human language emerged because
the available fossil record shows this.
We know bipedal hominids emerged in Africa because
-hunting and gathering lifestyle long after plants were domesticated. - planting desirable plants that were not basic to subsistence **Both A and C are correct**
We know there was a different pattern of domestication in Mesoamerica which consisted of
- expansion of the brain - modification of female pelvis - general reduction in the size of teeth **All the above**
What characterizes early Homo so that we begin to see the start of new trends in hominid evolution?
there is evidence there were few savannas, but more woodland and open country
What is the main argument against bipedal development as an adaptation for life on the savannas?
it's still very subjective on the part of the anthropologist
What is the main problem with anthropologists trying to reconstruct the body using fossils?
that Neandertals did not evolve into modern humans but instead became extinct
What is the major principle of Single-Origin Theory?
combined apelike dentition with bipedalism.
What makes Ardipithecus ramidus unique is that it
average height of the population
Which is not put forth as a possible reason for broad-spectrum collecting?
It is not important to modern humans
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of culture?
Multi-national
Which of the following is NOT a theory about what happened to the Neandertals?
Irrigation Systems
Which of the following is part of the state's infrastructure?
because they often dictate ideas about cultural behavior as a result of having a different code of ethics
Why are Western countries sometimes criticized for being too involved in the human rights issues of other cultures?
making tools is a pattern of behavior shared by a group of individuals
Why does the presence of tools means culture existed?
Microliths
________ are very tiny blade tools.
overextension
_________ is often given as a reason for the decline of the Roman Empire.
Continuity
_________ is the main evidence used by the multiregional theorists to support their
Burins
__________ are chisel-like stone tools used for carving.
Ethnographic analogy
____________ looks at how a tool similar to one found in the past is used by people today.
environmental degradation.
A major reason for the decline of states appears to be
some anthropologists argue that Neandertals are part of the same species as Homo sapiens and others think they were a distinct species that died out
A most interesting debate continues regarding the Neandertals. Why?
- the use of force to govern. - class stratification. - health issues due to concentration of people in cities. Correct! **All the above**
A negative result of the development of states is
- the creation of irrigation. - population growth, leading to competition, and warfare. - the development of long distance trade routes. **All the above**
A number of theories have been proposed as to why states developed in many parts of the world. They include
ethnocentric
A person who judges other cultures solely in terms of his or her own culture is said to be
they try to explain the replacement of one population by another and some interbreeding between early modern humans and other populations.
Intermediate Theories have some relevance in the discussion of human origins because
irrigation and the use of domesticated cattle
In Ali Kosh in southwestern Iran after about 5500 B.C., ______________ were two important innovations.
all the learned behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population.
In anthropology, the term "culture" refers to
food production
In the state, many people are relieved of the need for
- modern humans have higher foreheads You Answered - modern humans have thinner and lighter bones - modern humans have smaller faces **All the above**
In what way do modern humans, or Homo sapiens, look different than Neandertals?