Physical Anthropology - Chapters 14 & 15

The Cro-Magnon specimen is often used as a prototype for Homo neanderthalensis

False

The Neandertal facial configuration can be explained as a response to warm weather.

False

The first domestication of plants was 20,000 years ago in Africa.

False

The earliest hominin species to be found outside the African continent is

Homo erectus

Homo erectus is characterized by a

relatively large facial skeleton as compared to H. sapiens

The shape of the Neandertal basicranium has been used as evidence to support the conclusion that Neandertals were

unable to produce all of the sounds produced by modern humans

Neandertal features include

-Platycephalic skull -"bun-shaped" occipital -forward-projecting face

The Upper Paleolithic was characterized by

-a tundra in northern and western Europe -large herds of animal life -the latter part of the last glaciation

The oldest member of the genus Homo was found in ___________ and is dated at around ___________.

-east Africa -2.3 million B.P

The Lower Paleolithic begins about

2.6 million years ago, with the first known use of stone tools

There is evidence of modern-looking populations in Europe by

38,000 B.P.

Beringia connected

Asia to North America

Neandertal fossils have been found in

Europe

The find of Kennewick man implies

European genes may have been included in the genome of the earliest arrivals to the New World

Broca's area of the brain controls fine movement of the hand and allows for tool-making.

False

Early evidence for symbolic behavior in H. sapiens found at Blombos Cave, South Africa, consists of decorated red ochre pigment

False

Early members of the genus Homo were probably scavengers of meat and gatherers of vegetation.

False

Fossil evidence from the Klasies River and complex comparative genetic studies has led some researchers to believe that early modern people first evolved in Europe.

False

Humans probably traveled to Australia by means of a land bridge.

False

Neandertals were on the average much more lightly built than modern people.

False

New studies of a section of the Y chromosome suggest that all modern human males had a common ancestor about one million years ago.

False

Some paleoanthropologists split the species Homo habilis into two species: Homo habilis and Homo ergaster.

False

The Middle Paleolithic refers to the stone tools of

Homo neanderthalensis

The first specimens of Homo habilis were discovered at

Olduvai Gorge Tanzania

In the Middle East, the correct sequence of culture history phases is

Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age

A fossil population that maintained Homo erectus characteristics as recently as 9500 years ago was discovered in Australia.

True

Generally, the dentition of Homo is smaller than that of Australopithecus.

True

H. sapiens developed contemporaneously with the Neanderthals.

True

Neandertals may have buried their dead, but not all researchers agree that they did

True

The earliest agreed upon date for people occupying the New World is about 13,500 B.P

True

The earliest hominins, which are classified as Homo erectus, date to as far back as about 1.8 million years

True

The extinction of many genera of large animals during the Late Pleistocene may be due to hunting by Homo sapiens.

True

The oldest likely member of the genus Homo was found in Africa and is dated to around 2.5 million B.P.

True

Homo ergaster is considered by those paleoanthropologists who originally split this new species off of what was previously called Homo erectus and those that agree with this split to be

a species that predated Homo erectus in Africa and other areas but in some ways displays characteristics more similar to Homo sapiens than to Homo erectus

The replacement model for Homo sapiens' evolution suggests that modern humans

evolved in Africa and migrated into the rest of the world, replacing all earlier populations

Cro-Magnon populations were characterized by

none of these (low foreheads massive faces all of these small cranial capacities)

People in the Upper Paleolithic

practiced cooperative hunting and used projectile technology

The "Mitochondrial Eve" hypothesis traces all modern populations back to about 200,000 years ago. The accuracy of this date of about 200,000 is

questioned by some paleoanthropologists

In terms of hominin evolution, perhaps the most important part of the diet of early H. sapiens at Pinnacle Point, South Africa, was

shellfish