Chapter 9 connect Anthropology 101
The species which has been named ________, discovered in 2004 in Indonesia, had a cranial capacity smaller than that of a chimpanzee.
Homo floresiensis
With a cranial capacity of 600 to 700 cubic cm, which of the following species was the first tool maker and was identified as the first member of the Genus Homo?
Homo habilis
Fossil remains at several sites in Europe, Africa, and Asia dating btw 700,000 and 200,000 yrs ago may represent transitional species btw erectus, neandertals, and anatomically modern humans. what species name was assigned to this group?
Homo heidelbergensis
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
Which site in France is important bc it yielded evidence from 300,000 yrs ago of the ability to build huts and establish seasonal camp sites?
Terra Amata
Discovery in 1908 of a neandertal skeleton turned out to be an old man with arthritis, but it gave us the popular image of a cave man who cannot walk upright. What is the name of the famous site where this neandertal was discovered?
La Chapelle
W.o.f. groups stayed within a particular territory and did not engage in long-distance trade?
Neandertals
Archaic Homo sapiens includes which of the following species?
Neandertals and earliest members of our species
The first representative of Homo habilis was found at...?
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
Earliest of human ancestors during the geological time period called the_____________, which began about 2 m.y.a. and endured until about 11,000 yrs 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
Which best describes the cranial capacity of homo erectus compared with the australopithecine avg?
avg cranial capacity of erectus was 1,000 cubic cm, doubled the size of the australopithecines
which ability f H. erectus provided protection against cave bears and saber-toothed tigers during the ice age in the middle east and in southern africa?
control of fire
Best explanation of why H. erecrus expanded out of Africa into Europe and Asia?
following the animals they hunted for meat
What is another term for ice ages?
glacials
What are some physical characteristics of Neandertals?
heavy brow ridges slanting foreheads
Which human ancestral species was the first to migrate out of Africa?
homo erectus
W.o.f. statements about the Denisovans are true?
lived in asia roughly 400,000 to 50,000 yrs ago the split btw neandertals and denisovans happened when neandertals spread west and the denisovans headed east
In which of the following ways did the neandertals deal with the cold environment that was caused by the Wurm glacial?
made more elaborate tools hunted mammoths, reindeer, and woolly rhinos wore clothes
How did scientists relate the denisovans to other groups?
researching their DNA
Fossil finds at a site located at Dmanisi dating 1.77 m.y.a. are significant because?
show when first human ancestors spread out of africa
W.o.f. statements is true about the skeletons of Homo erectus and modern humans?
skeleton of H. erectus was similar to modern humans
The current prevailing view among scientists is that H. erectus...
split into separate groups, one ancestral to neandertals and one to AMHs
What important information regarding Homo erectus was revealed by the famous fossil find known as Nariokotome boy?
suggested might have reached a height of 6 feet approaching the height of modern humans
How Homo erectus is like modern humans?
Body shape and height
Which of the following statements best describes the time period during which the two species, Homo habilis and Homo erectus, overlapped?
Both species overlapped from 1.9 to 1.4 m.y.a., but after that only Homo erectus endured to about 0.4 m.y.a.
In 1891 the fossil find called "Java man" made ___________ famous as one of the first scientists to identify a "missing link" between apes and humans.
Eugene Dubois
In W.o.f. ways does H. rudolfensis differ from H. habilis?
H. rudolfensis had canines facing the front of the jaw The H. habilis skull has a more marked brow ridge
A possible ancestor to Neandertals and anatomically modern humans has been discovered in northern spanish at atapuerca dating to 780,000 yrs ago. the name given to this species is...?
Homo antecessor
Hunting was an important cultural behavior marking a significant step for a human ancestor. Which ancestral species does the fossil record indicate was the earliest sophisticated hunter?
Homo erectus
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
W.o.f. tool types is associated with Homo erectus?
Acheulean hand axes
In addition to europe, fossils of H. heidelbergensis have been found in which two other continents?
Africa Asia
H. erectus remains have been found at which places?
Java Africa
W.o.f. paleoanthropologists 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
What are some characteristics of H. heidelbergensis fossils found in Europe?
More than 100,000 years old found in caves
W.o.f. sites is associated with neandertal?
Neander Valley
Where was the first evidence of Neandertals discovered in 1856?
Neander Valley, Germany
Mousterian tools include a wide variety of stone scrapers and notched tools designed to make clothing from animal hides and to be used for sawing and piercing. Which ancestral species made this tool type?
Neandertal
W.o.f. statements best describes the behavior of Homo floresiensis?
this small-brained species hunted elephants, made tools with small blades mounted on wooden shafts, and controlled fire