Exam 3: Becoming Human

__________________ DNA is passed exclusively from mothers to their children and represents maternal lineages.

What was unique about the Schöningen spears? How might this find affect archaeological interpretations of stone tools?

Which of these sites covered in Chapter 3 is located in Africa?

The ____________________ geological epoch began approximately 2.6 million years ago.

How would you define "modern" human behavior? What material evidence of those behaviors could we seek in the archaeological record?

Why are Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis classified as separate species?

What role does FOXP2 play in our linguistic ability? What does it tell us about Neandertal language?

Homo erectus fossils are found on each of the following continents except______________.

Some archaeologists have speculated that __________________ was used to make tools east of the Movius Line.

Basal ganglia are part of the larynx associated with language.

Which of these sites covered in Chapter 3 is not located in Africa?

Briefly describe the climate of the Pleistocene. How did this affect hominin migrations?

The __________________ site in Ethiopia yielded fossils of early Homo sapiens.