Question 1

What role may conflict between groups have played in this early movement of peoples and in the development of the earliest human societies?

Accepted Answer

The conflict between groups may have pla

Question 2

Which of the following traits does the species Homo sapiens not share with chimpanzees?

Accepted Answer

A)  ability to speak 
B)  burial of the dead 
C)  enjoyment of play 
D)  self-awareness 
A)  ability to speak 
B)  burial of the dead 
C)  enjoyment of play 
D)  self-awareness

Question 3

Which of the following is not an argument for rapid population growth following the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa?

Accepted Answer

A)  cooking with fire 
B)  economic specialization 
C)  domestication of dogs 
D)  improved hunting technology 
A)  cooking with fire 
B)  economic specialization 
C)  domestication of dogs 
D)  improved hunting technology

Question 4

The significance of Zhoukhoudian Cave is

Accepted Answer

A)  that it provides early evidence for the use of fire. 
B)  that it provides evidence that Neanderthals and humans interbred. 
C)  that it is the earliest site in the New World inhabited by humans. 
D)  that it provides the earliest evidence for human burial ritual. 
A)  that it provides early evidence for the use of fire. 
B)  that it provides evidence that Neanderthals and humans interbred. 
C)  that it is the earliest site in the New World inhabited by humans. 
D)  that it provides the earliest evidence for human burial ritual.

Question 5

Paintings that depict people wearing animal masks or skins likely represent

Accepted Answer

A)  hunting rituals. 
B)  practices that are only for entertainment. 
C)  early mating rituals. 
D)  none of the above 
A)  hunting rituals. 
B)  practices that are only for entertainment. 
C)  early mating rituals. 
D)  none of the above

Question 6

The San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert survive mainly on a diet of

Accepted Answer

A)  game. 
B)  root plants. 
C)  a type of cactus. 
D)  wheat and millet. 
A)  game. 
B)  root plants. 
C)  a type of cactus. 
D)  wheat and millet.

Question 7

Observations of macaques or "snow monkeys" by Japanese scientists in the 1950s added to evidence that:

Accepted Answer

A)  macaques preferred to eat vegetables that had been mixed with wheat. 
B)  nonhuman species practice and transmit cultural routines and rites as learned behavior, much as humans do. 
C)  macaque culture, like that of other monkeys, relies fundamentally on instinct. 
D)  the cultural behavior of nonhuman species had less in common with humans than had been previously believed. 
A)  macaques preferred to eat vegetables that had been mixed with wheat. 
B)  nonhuman species practice and transmit cultural routines and rites as learned behavior, much as humans do. 
C)  macaque culture, like that of other monkeys, relies fundamentally on instinct. 
D)  the cultural behavior of nonhuman species had less in common with humans than had been previously believed.

Question 8

Australopithecines were like modern humans in that they

Accepted Answer

A)  buried their dead. 
B)  made tools. 
C)  were bipeds. 
D)  had similar sized brains. 
A)  buried their dead. 
B)  made tools. 
C)  were bipeds. 
D)  had similar sized brains.

Question 9

How do paleoanthropologists believe that humans have evolved over the past 2.5 million years?

Accepted Answer

Paleoanthropologists believe that humans

Question 10

What is the evidence for the migration of humans out of Africa? Why is it thought that this movement of peoples took place?

Accepted Answer

The evidence for the migration of humans

Question 11

Discuss how historians,archeologists and anthropologists use cave art and material culture to understand the lives and routines of early humans.

Accepted Answer

Historians, archaeologists, and anthropo

Exam 1: Out of the Ice: Peopling the Earth

What role may conflict between groups have played in this early movement of peoples and in the development of the earliest human societies?

Which of the following traits does the species Homo sapiens not share with chimpanzees?

Which of the following is not an argument for rapid population growth following the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa?

The significance of Zhoukhoudian Cave is

Paintings that depict people wearing animal masks or skins likely represent

The San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert survive mainly on a diet of

Observations of macaques or "snow monkeys" by Japanese scientists in the 1950s added to evidence that:

Australopithecines were like modern humans in that they

How do paleoanthropologists believe that humans have evolved over the past 2.5 million years?

What is the evidence for the migration of humans out of Africa? Why is it thought that this movement of peoples took place?

Discuss how historians,archeologists and anthropologists use cave art and material culture to understand the lives and routines of early humans.

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A Succession of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability

Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits

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Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa, ca. 200 C.E. to ca. 700 C.E.

Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal on Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millennium

Contending with Isolation: ca. 1000–1200

The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China ca. 1000–1200

Contending with Isolation: ca. 1000–1200

The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China ca. 1000–1200

The World the Mongols Made

The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century

Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century

The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires

The Exchange of Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Thought

Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions

The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century

Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century: The Westward Shift of Power and the Rise of Global Empires

The Changing State: Political Developments in the Nineteenth Century

The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World

World Order and Disorder: Global Politics in the Twentieth

The Pursuit of Utopia: Civil Society in the Twentieth Century

The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment

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