Anthro ch12

Archaic Homo sapiens are the first to have expanded beyond Africa into other parts of the Old World.

False

The first non modern human fossil to be discovered, and recognized as such, was the:

Neandertal skull from Germany

Fossil remains of archaic Homo Sapiens

Show a mixture of Homo erectus and H.sapiens traits.

Archaic Homo sapiens display several primitive features found in geologically older hominids.

True

In terms of mtDNA, Neanderthals differ more from modern humans than any one modern group differs from any other.

True

Some Neanderal skulls have cranial capacities that are larger than those of the average modern human.

True

Stress markers in the teeth that reflect growth disruption due to poor diets or to poor health are called dental hypoplasis.

True

All the following traits suggest cold adaptation for Neanderthals except:

a narrow nasal aperture

shovel- shaped incisors are one of the most distinctive features of people from:

east asia and the americas

the distinctive fluted spear points used by early native americans (Paleoindians ) to hunt large- bodied ice age mammals are:

folsom points

middle paleolithic prepared- core stone tools, usually associated with neanderthals, are called the:

mousterian

According to the out-of-america model, the transition from archaic to modern homo sapiens

occurred only once, in Africa

the middle pleistocene archaic homo sapiens is credited with inventing.

prepared core "points" that may have been hafted to spear shafts.

the best fossil evidence to suggest that neanderthals could produce a language like that of modern humans comes from which bone(s) collected at kebab, israel?

the hyoid

the archeological period in Europe starting about 35,000 yBP, marked by a great increase in technology and various kinds of art, is called the:

upper paleolithic period

Anatomically modern humans are characterized by all of the following except:

average cranial capacity of 750 cc.

Analyses of modern human genetic variation suggest that Homo sapiens evolved approximately

200,000 yBP

The neandertals are last recorded in the fossil record about:

30,000 yBP

human beings first arrived in the americas approximately

15,000 yBP

the hominid skeleton (lb1) recovered from the indonesian island of flores:

all of the above