ANTHRO the genus homo

this small-brained species hunted elephants, made tools with small blades mounted on wooden shafts, and controlled fire

Homo floresiensis

which of the following species was a miniature hominid that lived on an Indonesian island until at least 50,000 B.P.? discovered in 2004 has a cranial capacity smaller than that of a chimpanzee

Homo floresiensis

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

both species overlapped from 1.9 m.y.a. to 1.4 m.y.a., but after that only on endured to about 0.4 m.y.a.

Homo habilis and Homo erectus Homo erectus

A discovery in 1908 of a Neanderthal skeleton turned out to be an old man with arthritis, but it gave us the popular image of the cave man who cannot walk upright. What is the name of the famous site where this Neanderthal was discovered

La Chapelle

which site in southern France is important because it yielded evidence dating to 300,000 years ago of the ability to build and establish seasonal camp site

Terra Amata

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

Louis and Mary Leakey

the average cranial capacity of which of the following species exceeded that of modern humans

Neanderthal

Archaic Homo sapiens includes which of the following species

Neanderthals and the earliest members of our species

where did Tim White discover an important specimen of Homo Habilis identified as female in 1986

Olduvai

The name for the period during which human ancestors relied only on stone tools is

Paleoplithic

The earliest human ancestors appeared during the geological time period called the ____ which began about two million years ago and endured until about 11,000 years ago

Pleistocene

the species Homo erectus is associated with which of the following important archaeological sites

Zhoukoudian

how did the Acheulean toolmaking tradition get its name

a French town

what does the name homo habilis mean

able man

AMH

anatomically modern humans

How Homo erectus is like modern humans

both share a similar height and body shape

What are some physical characteristic of Neanderthals

heavy brow ridges slanting foreheads a stocy build and long, broad noses(cold climate)

what ability set apart homo habilis and Au. boisel

hunting ability

What are long warm periods between ice ages

interglacials

what are some characteristics of the oldest known hominin fossil in Europe

its from Spain its more than one million years old

H. heidelbergensis fossils found in Europe

often found in caves more than 100,000 years old

the current prevailing view among scientists is that H. erectus

split into separate groups, one ancestral to the Neanderthals and the other ancestral to anatomically modern humans

the split between ancestral Neanderthals and Denisovans happened when Neanderthals spread to the west and the Denisovans headed east

true

human ancestral species associated with the tool type known as Acheulean

Homo erectus

The name of the 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 even represent a female member of the species Homo habilis is

Homo rudolfensis

in 2010 scientists identified the Denisovan hominin group as distant cousins to

Neanderthals

what does the term Paleolithic mean

Old Stone Age

what is another term for ice ages

glacials

what physical characteristic of Homo erectus allowed it to hunt longer distances

longer legs

genetic materical indicated that descendants of the Denisovans live in Papua New Guinea and which continent

Australia

how does H. rudolfensis differ from H. habilis

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

some scientists consider them to be Homo heidelbergensis

Homo antecessor

The acheulean hand axe, associated with the species _____ represents the type of tool that requires a mental template in the mind of the maker, a significant advance in human evolution.

Homo erectus

hunting was an important cultural behavior making a significant step for a human ancestor. which ancestral species does the fossil record indicate was the earliest sophisticated hunter

Homo erectus

which human ancestral species would most likely have been the first to master fire

Homo erectus

which of the following ancestral human species had an average cranial capacity of at least 900 cm3

Homo erectus

which of the following was the reason why Eugene Dubois went to the Indonesian island of Java

to find a transitional form between apes and humans

H. antecessor may be a common ancestor of the Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans

true

the Denisovans lived in Asia from roughly 400,000 to 50,000 years ago

true

the first remains of H. antecessor dicovery date to 780,000 years ago

true

Neanderthals were resistant to change and were suspicious of outsiders, but members of which group were innovators and had regional social networks

AMHs

In addition to Europe, fossils of H. heidelbergensis have been found in which other two continents

Africa and Asia

H. erectus remains have been found at which places

Java

who made olduvai gorge in Tanzania famous by discovering the first tool maker and the first known representative of the Genus Homo

L.S.B. and Mary Leakey

the type of technology associated with Neanderthals is called

Mousterian

where was the first evidence of Neanderthals discovered in 1856

Neander Valley, Germany

brain size of Homo erectus compared with the australopithecine average

the average cranial capacity of H. erectus at about 1,000 cm3 was double the size of the australopithecines

what important information regarding homo erectus was revealed by the famous fossil find known as Nariokotome boy

the find suggested that the boy as an adult would have reached a height of six feet, approaching the height of modern humans

which of the following statements about H. antecessor are true

the species may be a common ancestor of the Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans the first remains discovered date to 780,000 years ago

what are some characteristics of H. heidelbergensis fossils found in Europe

they are often found in caves they are more than 100,000 years old

which of the following statements best describes the group that was ancestral to anatomically modern humans (AMHs)

they arrived in Europe from Africa

in which of the following ways did the Neanderthals deal with the cold environment that was caused by the Wurm glacial

they made more elaborate tools they hunted mammoths, reindeer, and woolly rhinos they wore clothes

Fossil finds at a site located at Dmanisi dating to 1.77 million years ago are significant because

they show when the first human ancestors spread out of Africa

what is the best explanation of why Homo erectus expanded out of Africa into Europe and Asia

they were following the animals they hunted for meant