Anthro Midterm questions chapter 9

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

The 6-foot stature of species made if the first to approach modern human height

Which species was the earliest to migrate out of Africa?

home erectus for hunting and gathering

Ancestral human species that had an average cranial capacity of 1,000 cm?

homo erectus

Campfire found in Israel dating back to about 800,000 years ago, and several in South Africa about 500,000 years ago. Based on these dates, which ancestral species would most likely have been the first to master fire?

homo erectus

Human ancestral species __________ is associated with cave sites in china known as Zhoukoudian, contains hearths and large amounts of tools, animal bones and fossilized remains of more than 40 individuals.

homo erectus

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

homo erectus

With a cranial capacity of 600 to 700 cubic centimeters, which of the following species was the first tool maker and was identified as the first member of the genus homo

homo habilis

Species associated with the skull identified as KNM-ER 1470 that has a brain size similar to Homo Habilis and which may be closely related to homo habilis or may ever represent a female member of the species homo habilis is

homo rudoldensis

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

hunting ability

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

louis and mary leakey

The first representative of homo habilis was found at

olduvai gorge in tanzania

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

olduvia

Which period during did human ancestors rely on stone tools

paleolithic

Fossils of homo erectus date from at least ________ years ago to less than ________ years ago

300,000 and 25,000

The cranial capacity or brain size of homo habilis is

600 to 700 centimeters

In 1891 fossil called Java man made who famous which identified the missing link between apes and humans

Eugene Dubois

In which of the following way does H. rudolfensis differ from H. habilis?

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

Cranial capacity of Homo erectus was about _______, roughly double the australopithecine average

1,000 cm

Oldest Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus fossils date to

1.9 mya

What was the reason why Eugene Dubois went to the Indonesian island of java

to find a transitional form between apes and humans

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

Archeulean hand axes

Who made Olduvai George in Tanzania famous by discovering the first tool maker and the first known representative of the Genus homo?

L.S.B and Mary Leakey

How did the skeleton of homo erectus compare with modern homo sapiens?

the skeleton of homo erectus was similar to modern humans

Fossil finds at a site located at Damanisi dating to 1.77 million years agoare significant because

they show when human ancestors first began to build shelters