Chapter 9

Which of the following describes the settlement at Dolni Vestonice? A lone, disfigured woman was buried inside a single tent. A wall built with mammoth bones surrounded four animal-skin huts and an open, central hearth. More than 20 huts made of wood and animal skins surrounded a central oven. Caves with paved stone floors contained animal-skin tents for individual families.

A wall built with mammoth bones surrounded four animal-skin huts and an open, central hearth.

Which of the following describes the Upper Paleolithic in North Africa? People hunted grassland animals, moved regularly, and traded for stone. People lived in ways very similar to the nomadic pastoralists of desert regions today. People lived in permanent settlements near waterholes in an otherwise arid region. People lived in small permanent villages isolated from one another and hunted wild camels.

People hunted grassland animals, moved regularly, and traded for stone.

What does the arrival of people in Australia during the Upper Paleolithic indicate?

Upper Paleolithic people from Asia were skilled at sea travel.

What do the animal bones found at Dolni Vestonice suggest about Upper Paleolithic behaviors?

Upper Paleolithic people scavenged and hunted.

What was one of the most striking developments during the Upper Paleolithic?

art- cave paintings

Which of the following tools are characteristic of the Upper Paleolithic? blades, burins, and microliths cores, flakes, and choppers hand axes, harpoons, and arrow points scrapers, chisels, and needles

blades, burins, and microliths

Which materials were used in the manufacture of needles, awls, and harpoons during the Upper Paleolithic?

bone, antler, and ivory

The last ice age was characterized by the appearance of which kinds of animals?

extremely large game animals

Cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic are thought to reflect which of the following? the importance of certain people as religious leaders an emphasis on sexuality and fertility how people got their food the phases of the moon

how people got their food

Tools in the Upper Paleolithic were most effective for what?

hunting and fishing

In addition to an increased reliance on hunting, which of the following developed during the Upper Paleolithic in the Old World? increased sedentism and trade increased isolation of small, nomadic hunting bands the Levalloisian technique of stone tool manufacture pictographic writing systems

increased sedentism and trade

Clovis points have often been found in association with which of the following? straight-horned bison remains mammoth bones wolf and rabbit remains deer skeletons

mammoth bones

Which of the following offers the most direct evidence that post-Upper Paleolithic Europeans were more dependent on fishing than their ancestors? DNA analysis of human skeletal remains settlements in both inland and coastal areas cave paintings depicting sea creatures middens and remains of canoes

middens and remains of canoes

What was found at the site of Monte Verde in Chile?

more than 700 stone tools, evidence of hide-covered huts, a child's footprint, and a hearth

Which of the following features was characteristic of both Maglemosian people in Europe and Archaic people in the New World? hunting large game and temporary encampments living in small mobile groups and cave painting reliance on forest products and sedentary settlements reliance on domesticated plants and animals as dietary staples

reliance on forest products and sedentary settlements

What was the first step in creating a stone tool using an indirect percussion technique?

shaping a core into a pyramidal or cylindrical shape

Which of the following supports the coastal migration model for the arrival of humans in the New World? genetic analysis connecting Kennewick man to contemporary Native Americans evidence that there was a land bridge between Asia and northwest America during the last ice age the early date of the remains found in Monte Verde, Chile the discovery of stone tools in ancient coastlines that are now under the Bering Sea

the discovery of stone tools in ancient coastlines that are now under the Bering Sea

Which of the following may have been an important element in the flourishing of Upper Paleolithic culture? the development of writing the increasing abundance of natural resources the consumption of greater quantities of wild plant foods the emergence of language

the emergence of language

Which of the following may be evidence of the existence of human language during the Upper Paleolithic? the emergence of symbolic art the first written alphabet the continuity of cultural behaviors across long distances the increasing importance of trade

the emergence of symbolic art

What foods became prominent at the end of the Upper Paleolithic in northern areas that had been tundra and grasslands?

wild plants, mollusks, fish, and small game

By what point had people successfully domesticated certain species of plants?

14,000 years ago in the Old World and 10,000 years ago in the New World

What was indirect percussion?

After shaping a core into a pyramidal or cylindrical form, toolmakers put a punch of antler, wood, or other hard material into position and struck it with a hammer. Because the force is readily directed, toolmakers were able to strike off consistently shaped blades, which are more than twice as long as they are wide

What was found in the fifth hut outside the settlement of Dolni Vestonice?

a bake oven and broken animal figurines

What are the tools called that are found with mammoth kills?

Clovis complex

Which of the following describes the differences between the world's climate during the last ice age and today? Northern areas were warmer while equatorial areas were colder. Most of the earth was covered in sheets of ice, and temperatures were far colder than today. North Africa was wetter, and South Asia was drier. All areas experienced heavier snow and rainfalls.

North Africa was wetter, and South Asia was drier.

During the last ice age, which areas would have had environments similar to modern-day Siberia?

North America and Europe

What is the significance of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in western Pennsylvania?

There is clear evidence of pre-Clovis occupation.

What is the problem with using ethnographic analogy to determine what a tool was used for?

There is no way to be sure that contemporary tool use reflects that of the ancient past.

Which of the following was a result of changing ocean currents during the last ice age? Australia and Hawaii became islands. Areas of the Mediterranean coast were under water. Massive flooding occurred throughout South America. There were extreme temperature contrasts.

There were extreme temperature contrasts.

Which of the following is characteristic of the lifestyle of Paleo-Indians living in the Illinois River valley? They used milling stones to process plant foods. They relied more on fishing than game. They lived in permanent villages of 100 to 150 people. They traveled in small bands as they hunted big game.

They lived in permanent villages of 100 to 150 people.

What do Upper Paleolithic tools suggest about their makers?

They were better hunters and fishers than those who came before them.

Which of the following statements about the Later Stone Age in Africa is true? People of the Later Stone Age lived in small groups that were largely isolated from one another. Ways of life that developed during this period have persisted until recent times. The Later Stone Age eventually developed into the Upper Paleolithic. Later Stone Age tool technologies were more primitive than those found in Upper Paleolithic Europe.

Ways of life that developed during this period have persisted until recent times.

By analyzing the polish found on prehistoric blades from a site in Siberia, S.A. Semenov established that __________.

they were used to cut meat