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Cave art was not continued past the Magdalenian age, dated _______, when the traditions and their meanings of this art were abandoned.
12,000 B.C.E.
30,000 B.C.E.
1400 C.E.
50,000 B.C.E.
In the effort to determine the age of early human artifacts and remains, the most common dating technique since its discovery in 1949 is dating.
The human family, from our earliest ancestors and relatives emerging as the human line branched off from apes, up to and including ourselves is known as:
Homo erectus.
Hominids.
Homo sapiens.
Homo habilis.
Two-thirds of all skeletons of Homo erectus have been found in the Olduvai Gorge of Africa.
True
False
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution:
was based on observations made during global travel and on a new concept of time.
represented the first time that people had thought about evolution.
was the result of a long term partnership with fellow scientist Alfred Russell Wallace.
held that evolutionary changes represented the working out of a pre-existing Divine plan.
Early evidence about gender relations:
is often absent.
suggests males and females shared all tasks.
suggests males traveled in the search for food while females stayed close to home.
suggests there were a variety of different relations between males and females in different societies.
According to the Mesopotamian creation myth, __________ , humans were created to serve the gods after Marduk slew Tiamat.
Enuma Elish
Epic of Gilgamesh
Genesis
Rigved
The "candelabra" theory of human development holds that Homo sapiens moved out of Africa only 100,000 years ago, an idea that supports the "out of Africa" idea of recent racial differentiation.
True
False
Drawing from the example of modern hunter-gatherer groups, anthropologists believe that a tribe must have _______ members to have an adequate mating pool.
500
1000
10,000
25
“Missing link†refers to:
Neanderthals.
primitive human beings located between humans and pre-human primates.
“Piltdown Man.â€Â
the species that connects Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens sapiens.
The migration of humans out of Africa was made possible by:
the creation of land bridges during the Ice Age that enabled humans to travel easily out of Africa.
the fertile climate of the Sahara Desert that enabled humans to travel northward toward Asia Minor.
drought in Africa that drove humans northward in search of food.
the creation of agriculture that enabled humans to settle permanently in new locations.
The clearest changes in human development appeared in our:
cave art.
remnants of the devices left by early women.
toolkits.
language development.
Needles were among the earliest form of tools developed by humans.
True
False
Finds of artwork such as beads, pendants, and incised animal bones from before 35,000 are rare.
True
False
Despite the obstacles of overseas travel (and the absence of any land bridge) humans from New Guinea got to Polynesia around 4000 B.C.E.
True
False
Noam Chomsky argues that just as bipedalism is not a learned cultural activity, but has evolved biologically, in the same way _______ is not culturally learned but has biologically evolved.
talking
sleeping
hunting
communicating
The domestication of plants and animals:
resulted in dogs always being domesticated first.
led to a more stable food supply but included the risk of disease and crop loss due to weather.
was long a feature of hunting and gathering societies.
occurred after people adopted a settled pattern of living because people then had the time to achieve this task.
Based on evidence from Israel it is apparent that Neanderthal and modern humans coexisted for tens of thousands of years.
True
False
The discovery of several hundred early female figurines but few, if any, representations of males suggests:
early societies were controlled by males.
the figures were intended to promote fertility.
males created these art forms.
early societies were matriarchies.
Both Darwin and Wallace reached their conclusions about the nature of evolution through rigorous laboratory experiments.
True
False
The Lucy skeleton, an Australopithecus afarensis, had all of the following traits except:
sturdy, curved arms consistent with tree climbing.
human hands.
upright walking ability.
ability to use tools.
The transition from hunter-gatherer to settled agricultural modes of subsistence, the stage which immediately preceded the rise of cities and empires, occurred between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago.
True
False
The last areas of the globe settled by humans was around 1000 B.C.E. in:
Australia.
Polynesia.
South America.
Greenland.
The Jomon people of Japan practiced settled agriculture in addition to hunting boars and deer.
True
False
One of the best preserved agricultural villages of the Neolithic period is located in Ban Po, China.
True
False
The rise of the agricultural village was stimulated by growth in the population of hunter-gatherer bands that required members to operate in ever larger areas and risk contact with hostile neighbors.
True
False
A marked increase in brain size about ______ years ago marks the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens sapiens, today's human beings.
35,000
100,000
5,000
12,000
Genetic evidence has proved that human beings and apes:
shared common ancestry until 5-7 million years ago.
are totally different genetically.
developed from genetically different backgrounds but have come to look more alike over the last 5-7 million years.
none of the above.
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