Deck 3: Archaic Humans: Homo Ergaster, Homo Erectus, and Homo Heidelbergensis: 19 Million to 150,000 Years Ago

Question 1

The climatic changes of the __________ are believed to be partially responsible for the rapidity of human biological and cultural changes.

A) Eocene
B) Miocene
C) Holocene
D) Pleistocene

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Homo erectus moved out of Africa into Europe and Asia during the __________.

A) Lower Pleistocene
B) Middle Pleistocene
C) Upper Pleistocene
D) never; Homo erectus was confined to Africa

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The earliest East African Homo ergaster specimens come from the __________ region of northern Kenya.

A) Hadar
B) Lake Turkana
C) Lake Olduvai
D) Zhoukoudian

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The skeleton found at Nariokotome is of an 11 year old __________.

A) Australopithecus afarensis
B) Homo habilis
C) Homo ergaster
D) Homo sapiens

Question 5

The skeleton of the Nariokotome boy indicates that our postcranial anatomy likely evolved into its modern form __________ the crania.

A) after
B) at the same rate as
C) before
D) separately from

Question 6

The Nariokotome boy was __________ modern 12 year olds.

A) shorter than
B) the same height as
C) taller than
D) much shorter than

Question 7

__________ is thought to have radiated out of Africa when other mammals left the continent.

A) Australopithecus afarensis
B) Homo ergaster
C) Homo sapiens
D) Australopithecus africanus

Question 8

Fossil evidence from Indonesia dates Homo erectus remains to the same timeframe as those found in __________.

A) Europe
B) Asia
C) Africa
D) the Americas

Question 9

To have populated as far as Southeast Asia in 100,000 years, H. erectus could have traveled as little as __________ miles per year.

A) 5 to 10
B) 20 to 30
C) 100 to 200
D) 1000 to 1500

Question 10

A discovery of a Homo erectus cranium from Ethiopia that has both African and Asian features suggests that African and Asian Homo erectus __________.

A) were completely different species
B) were more similar than once thought
C) were never in contact with one another
D) would never interbreed

Question 11

__________ is believed by anthropologists to be the first to control fire.

A) Homo sapiens
B) Homo neanderthalensis
C) Homo habilis
D) Homo ergaster

Question 12

__________ is a well-known Middle Pleistocene cave site dating from 460,000 to 230,000 years ago which contained the remains of 40 individuals.

A) Narmada
B) Longgupo
C) Zhoukoudian
D) Lant'ien

Question 13

The toolkit associated with Homo ergaster and Homo erectus is the __________.

A) Oldowan
B) Mousterian
C) Acheulian
D) Upper Paleolithic

Question 14

The oldest wooden implements dating to the time of Homo erectus are wooden spears from __________.

A) Schoningen, Germany
B) Zhoukoudian, China
C) Gran Dolina, Spain
D) Boxgrove, England

Question 15

It is thought that materials like __________ were used as tools by early Asian Homo erectus populations.

A) stone
B) wood, bamboo, and fiber
C) wool and cotton
D) metal

Question 16

The most prevalent tool in the Acheulian toolkit was the __________.

A) scraper
B) knife
C) arrow
D) hand ax

Question 17

The __________ technique greatly increased the amount of usable stone obtained from a stone sample.

A) knapping
B) prepared core
C) Oldowan
D) hammer stone

Question 18

Evidence of butchery and big-game hunting is NOT at which of the following sites?

A) Torralba, Spain
B) Ambrona, Spain
C) Boxgrove, England
D) Dordogne, France

Question 19

The elephant bones from Torralba and Ambrona are found within clays that indicate a(n) __________ was present in the past.

A) river
B) ocean
C) marsh
D) lake

Question 20

The most well-known archaic Homo sapiens are __________.

A) Homo erectus
B) Neanderthals
C) Cro-Magnon
D) humans

Question 21

In which of the following areas did Neanderthals live?

A) Europe and Eurasia
B) Africa
C) Eurasia
D) South America

Question 22

The lithic technology associated with the Neanderthals is the __________.

A) Oldowan
B) Acheulian
C) Lower Paleolithic
D) Mousterian

Question 23

The Levallois and disk core techniques were used to produce __________ tools.

A) Oldowan
B) Acheulian
C) Mousterian
D) Lower Paleolithic

Question 24

Bordes believed that the variation in Mousterian toolkits was due to __________.

A) different intelligence levels
B) different groups
C) different time periods
D) reduction continuum

Question 25

Discuss the technological advances of Homo ergaster and Homo erectus that allowed them to leave the continent of Africa.

Question 26

Describe the prepared core technique and other advancements of the Acheulian tool industry.

Question 27

Discuss the skeletal differences between Neanderthals and modern humans.c.c. 200,000 Years Ago and Later