Deck 7: After the Ice: Before 10000

Question 1

The time period from 10,000 years ago to the present is called the __________.

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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following changed in the Holocene?

A) climate
B) volcanic gas distribution due to a change in the pattern of eruptions
C) global continent distribution
D) oceanic faunal distribution

Answer 2

A

Question 3

By 10000 B. C. it is estimated that the world's population was approximately __________.

A) 2.5 million
B) 5 million
C) 8.5 million
D) 10 million

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Use of the bow and arrow spread throughout the Old World by __________.

A) 11,000 B.C.
B) 9,000 B.C.
C) 7,000 B.C.
D) 5,000 B.C.

Question 5

Hunting and gathering intensified by __________.

A) exploiting grain resources
B) downsizing stone tools and toolkit specialization
C) toolkit generalization
D) remarkable technological adaptations for the time

Question 6

__________ enabled sedentary hunter-gatherers to cope with food shortages.

A) Food storage
B) Moving
C) Stealing from other groups
D) Cultivation

Question 7

Societies in areas rich and diverse in food resources sometimes achieved __________.

A) social equality
B) social complexity
C) small population sizes
D) greater mobility

Question 8

Initial investigations of __________ concluded it was occupied in the winter, but recent investigations show that this site was occupied in the spring and summer.

A) Maglemose
B) Guilá Naquitz
C) Kebara
D) Star Carr

Question 9

Which is NOT a subdivision of northern Mesolithic culture?

A) Bølling-Allerød
B) Maglemose
C) Kongemose
D) Ertebølle

Question 10

Cemeteries dating to the __________ period in Scandinavia show that some individuals met violent deaths, and there is even potential evidence of cannibalism.

A) Bolling-Allerod
B) Maglemose
C) Kongemose
D) Ertebolle

Question 11

Conditions for complex hunter-gatherer societies include everything EXCEPT __________.

A) limited population movement
B) abundant and predictable food resources
C) higher than normal population
D) ability to intensify food exploitation

Question 12

Around 11000 B. C. the __________ were beginning to process wild cereal grains. They were already adapting to cereal crops when climatic conditions became drier around 9000 B.C.

A) Kebarans
B) Natufians
C) Maglemoseans
D) Neanderthals

Question 13

Which period of post-Ice Age times in Europe preceded the introduction of farming?

A) Neolithic
B) Paleolithic
C) Mesolithic
D) Mesopotamia

Question 14

An ungulate is a __________.

A) hoofed mammal, such as deer
B) cereal crop
C) type of stone tool
D) culture in the eastern Mediterranean

Question 15

The ability of the world's many environments to support animals and people is its __________.

A) breathing room
B) upper limits
C) carrying capacity
D) symbiotic relationship

Question 16

A transitional zone between different environments is a(n) __________.

A) margin
B) ecotone
C) ecozone
D) mast

Question 17

What is a label that describes the region of the eastern Mediterranean coastline and immediate hinterland?

A) Mousterian
B) Dryas
C) Acheulian
D) Levant

Question 18

__________ means to be around or near glaciers.

A) Periglacial
B) Postglacial
C) Preglacial
D) Ambiglacial

Question 19

Permanent settlement at one location for all, or sometimes just most, of the year and over more than one year is termed __________.

A) stationary
B) sedentism
C) immobile
D) fixed

Question 20

In 13000 B. C., small and highly mobile hunter-gatherer bands inhabited the Levant and are subsumed under the general cultural name of __________.

A) Kebaran
B) Mousterian
C) Tabun
D) Natufian

Question 21

Discuss the evidence used by recent archaeologists to conclude that Star Carr was occupied in the spring and summer instead of the winter as was first thought.

Question 22

Discuss how the Natufians' utilization of wild cereal grains helped them adapt to a reliance on cereal crops.

Question 23

Describe the Mesolithic in Scandinavia. What were its cultural periods and what were major changes associated with each period?