Deck 5: Europe and Eurasia: C 48,000 Years Ago to 8000

Question 1

The acronym AMH stands for __________.

A) advanced modern humans
B) actually modern humans
C) anatomically modern humans
D) actuarially modern humans

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which site in Southwest Asia shows evidence that Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted?

A) Skhul
B) Qafzeh
C) et-Tabun
D) Negev

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans is marked by __________.

A) radically different tool technologies
B) a gradual change in tool technologies
C) no changes in the tool technologies
D) a combination of Neanderthal and modern human tool technologies

Answer 3

B

Question 4

When did Homo sapiens appear in Europe?

A) 80,000 years ago
B) 70,000 years ago
C) 60,000 years ago
D) 48,000 years ago

Question 5

Upper Paleolithic blade technology has been likened to a __________.

A) set of steak knives
B) set of silverware
C) Swiss army knife
D) pocket knife

Question 6

Cro-Magnon is the term used to refer to __________.

A) Neanderthals in Europe
B) early modern Homo sapiens in Europe
C) australopithecines
D) Homo erectus in Europe

Question 7

Upper Paleolithic cultures of Europe do NOT include __________.

A) Magdalenian
B) Aurignacian
C) Gravettian
D) Oldowan

Question 8

Most Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe are located near __________.

A) a water source
B) a mountain range
C) tundra regions
D) a permanent glacier

Question 9

During the Upper Paleolithic, social organization __________.

A) became less complex
B) became more complex
C) remained unchanged
D) was non-existent

Question 10

The earliest evidence of painted art comes from __________.

A) Lascaux Cave, France
B) Grotte de Chauvet, France
C) Apollo Cave II, Africa
D) Niaux, France

Question 11

James Adovasio and colleagues believe that __________ was/were used to hunt large numbers of rabbits and other small game at the sites of Dolní Vestonice and Pavlov.

A) trapping
B) bows and arrows
C) snares
D) cooperative hunting

Question 12

The Eastern Gravettian site that has the remains of five houses constructed of mammoth bones is __________.

A) Dolní Vestonice
B) Pavlov
C) Mezhirich
D) Kostenki

Question 13

People from the site of __________ were expert bone workers who carved female and animal figurines.

A) Mal'ta
B) Dolní Vestonice
C) Kostenki
D) Afontova Gora-Oshurkovo

Question 14

The only known late Ice Age site in northeast Asia, and possibly a source of the cultural traditions from which the culture of the first Americans derived, is __________.

A) Mal'ta
B) the Bering Strait
C) Diuktai
D) Clovis

Question 15

The Upper Pleistocene is characterized by a __________.

A) constant glacial state
B) climate much similar to today's
C) climate that was much warmer than today's
D) flux between glacial and interglacial periods

Question 16

Anatomically modern Homo sapiens spread from Africa into Southwest Asia by about __________.

A) 5,000 years ago
B) 20,000 years ago
C) 80,000 years ago
D) 100,000 years ago

Question 17

The tool technology associated with Neanderthals is the __________.

A) Mousterian
B) Magdalenian
C) Aurignacian
D) Gravettian

Question 18

Due to the constant changes in the climate, peoples of the Upper Paleolithic had to adapt so the best manner of subsistence would be __________.

A) agriculture
B) pastoralism
C) hunting and gathering
D) cannibalism

Question 19

The populations of large and small herbivores were likely __________ due to the longer growing season from 35,000 B. C. to 12,000 B. C.

A) smaller
B) larger
C) about the same as previous times
D) non-existent

Question 20

It is thought that the group size of Upper Paleolithic peoples would be much like that of modern __________.

A) hunter-gatherers
B) chiefdoms
C) cities
D) tribes

Question 21

Ornamentation in the form of beads, pendants, and perforated animal teeth are found between __________.

A) 100,000 to 90,000 B. C.
B) 80,000 to 70,000 B. C.
C) 60,000 to 50,000 B. C.
D) 40,000 to 30,000 B. C.

Question 22

Common themes in Upper Paleolithic cave art are __________.

A) animals
B) female figurines
C) plants
D) natural objects, like mountains

Question 23

Around 12,000 B. P., the Magdalenians seem to have stopped painting and engraving deep caves; instead they __________.

A) painted on rocks found on the landscape
B) painted on cave entrances and in rock shelters
C) painted on portable rocks
D) stopped painting all together

Question 24

The mammoth used by the Eastern Gravettian peoples for food, hides, and housing materials __________.

A) likely died natural deaths or were killed by Gravettian peoples
B) were of small stature compared to the mastodon
C) were domesticated by the Gravettian peoples
D) migrated in from more southerly latitudes

Question 25

A diminutive version of the blade used for manufacturing small barbs and scraping tools is called a __________.

A) burin
B) miniblade
C) microblade
D) miniknife

Question 26

Discuss the implications of Neanderthals and modern humans coexisting as has been found at sites such as Qafzeh and St. Césaire.

Question 27

Discuss the site of Grotte de Chauvet, France. What is important about this site? What do the various dates reveal about this site?

Question 28

What kinds of animal resources were exploited during the Upper Paleolithic? How did people obtain these resources?