Question 1

Although there is now evidence that several human groups colonized the Americas, those that crossed over through Beringia to reach the Americas did so

Accepted Answer

A)  because they were gradually forced into new territories by the expansion of more advanced agricultural groups in Asia. 
B)  following herds of big-game animals. 
C)  in order to take advantage of large flint deposits in South America. 
D)  because they were fleeing from warlike Cro-Magnon groups. 
E)  in their search for colder climates, because these Neandertals were adapted to cold weather.

Question 2

With an estimated date of 195,000 B.P., the Omo Kibish remains appear to be the earliest anatomically modern human fossils yet found in Asia.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In addition to their stocky bodies, adapted to conserve heat, Neandertals made clothes, developed elaborate tools, and hunted reindeer, mammoths, and woolly rhinos in order to adapt to the cold climate in Europe during the Würm glaciation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a general trend in hominin evolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  a greater reliance on biological means of adaptation 
B)  population growth 
C)  an increase in the quantity and quality of tools 
D)  a greater reliance on cultural means of adaptation 
E)  an increase in cranial capacity

Question 5

Which of the following statements describes a key difference between Oldowan and Acheulean tools?

Accepted Answer

A)  Acheulean tools, such as the hand ax, represent a predetermined shape based on a template in the mind of the toolmaker, suggesting a cognitive leap between earlier hominins and H. erectus. 
B)  Acheulean tools constitute a move away from wood toward more plastic media like clay. 
C)  Oldowan tools are based on the production of blades, associated with an increasing range of ways hominins exploited their biological and cultural environments. 
D)  Oldowan tools show an increase in size and a focus in being used for hunting. 
E)  Acheulean tools show representations of the human form on nonfunctional surfaces.

Question 6

The dry land that connected Australia and Tasmania is known as Beringia.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

One fairly complete skull, one large mandible, and two partial skulls were found in the 1990s at the Dmanisi site in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Dated to 1.77 to 1.7 m.y.a., these fossils

Accepted Answer

A)  suggest a slow spread of early Homo out of Africa and into Eurasia. 
B)  established an undisputed new species, H. rudolfensis. 
C)  are older than the fossils of the Nariokotome boy found in Kenya. 
D)  suggest a rapid spread, by 1.77 m.y.a., of early Homo out of Africa and into Eurasia. 
E)  exhibit no anatomical diversity, unlike the variable anatomically modern humans.

Question 8

Although the Neandertals are remembered more for their physiques than for their manufacturing abilities, their tool kits were sophisticated. In fact, the Mousterian technology with which Neandertals are associated

Accepted Answer

A)  provides the first definitive evidence of tool construction based on a template in the mind of the toolmaker. 
B)  included a variety of categories of tools designed for different jobs. 
C)  included a very complex technique involving chipping the core bilaterally and symmetrically, something never before seen in hominin toolmaking. 
D)  illustrates how blades became progressively more important in human evolution, particularly in Middle and Upper Paleolithic toolmaking. 
E)  was characterized by a revolutionary use of metals in combination with wood and stone.

Question 9

Compared to anatomically modern humans, Neandertals exhibited a greater degree of sexual dimorphism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 7: The Genus Homo

Although there is now evidence that several human groups colonized the Americas, those that crossed over through Beringia to reach the Americas did so

With an estimated date of 195,000 B.P., the Omo Kibish remains appear to be the earliest anatomically modern human fossils yet found in Asia.

In addition to their stocky bodies, adapted to conserve heat, Neandertals made clothes, developed elaborate tools, and hunted reindeer, mammoths, and woolly rhinos in order to adapt to the cold climate in Europe during the Würm glaciation.

Which of the following is NOT a general trend in hominin evolution?

Which of the following statements describes a key difference between Oldowan and Acheulean tools?

The dry land that connected Australia and Tasmania is known as Beringia.

One fairly complete skull, one large mandible, and two partial skulls were found in the 1990s at the Dmanisi site in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Dated to 1.77 to 1.7 m.y.a., these fossils

Although the Neandertals are remembered more for their physiques than for their manufacturing abilities, their tool kits were sophisticated. In fact, the Mousterian technology with which Neandertals are associated

Compared to anatomically modern humans, Neandertals exhibited a greater degree of sexual dimorphism.