Exam 6: Expanding Intellectual Horizons: Arts and Ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age

At Blombos Cave in South Africa, researchers discovered:

More than 75,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Blombos Cave:

A major technological innovation of the Upper Paleolithic was the:

What does the study of the artistic urge in modern children reveal about the meaning of Upper Paleolithic art?

Cussac Cave is notable for the 25,000-year-old painted depiction of a:

In Europe, the equivalent in time to the Late Stone Age in Africa is the:

The oldest Venus figurine dates to about how many years ago:

The oldest evidence for the production of ceramic vessels-pottery-dates to:

Was there a significant temporal gap between the evolution of anatomically modern-looking human beings and the development of intellectually modern behavior in the form of art and symbol?

Neandertals are known to have produced:

The earliest glimmerings of artistic expression found at Pinnacle Cave, in South Africa, date back about:

The oldest date obtained for the cave paintings in the western Pacific (on the island of Sulawesi) is about:

The time gap between the first appearance of anatomically modern human beings in the fossil record and the widespread behavioral modernity of Upper Paleolithic culture is about:

Compared to the Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic tool technologies are:

Among the new weapons used in hunting that were developed during the Upper Paleolithic and New Stone Age, were the:

Compare Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age to Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age use of raw materials. What do such differences signify?

For child development researcher Jean Piaget, the first scribblings of young children:

Detailed analyses of the so-called Venus figurines shows that:

The sites of Ksar Akil and Boker Tachtit are significant:

Describe Upper Paleolithic art. Where has it been found, what media were used, and how old is it?