Deck 4: Diaspora

Question 1

What is generally considered to be the last continental area of the globe to be settled by modern humans?

A) Siberia, South America, and Alaska.
B) India, Hawaii, and Madagascar.
C) The Americas.
D) Malaysia, Madagascar, and Easter Island.

Answer 1

The Americas.

Question 2

During the Ice Age, when ice shelves covered the Northern Hemisphere, what else occurred?

A) The sea level dropped 300 feet.
B) Low-lying coastal shelves connected islands to the nearby mainland.
C) New sunken continents appeared.
D) All of these.

Answer 2

All of these.

Question 3

What did early people probably know how to do to live in parts of Southeast Asia and Australia?

A) How to plant crops.
B) How to domesticate animals.
C) How to construct simple rafts and canoes.
D) All of these.

Answer 3

How to construct simple rafts and canoes.

Question 4

Anatomically modern humans first lived on New Guinea how many years ago?

A) 35,000 years ago.
B) 40,000 years ago.
C) 25,000 years ago.
D) 90,000 years ago.

Question 5

Radiocarbon dating can be used to date which objects?

A) Charcoal, wood, and hair.
B) Stone tools.
C) Living trees.
D) All of these.

Question 6

What is the common name given to the early modern humans living in Europe?

A) Homo erectus.
B) Modern man.
C) Neanderthals.
D) Cro-Magnons.

Question 7

Artifacts produced by striking off flakes from a core are named …

A) knives.
B) blades.
C) burins.
D) scrapers.

Question 8

The Cro-Magnons entered Europe during …

A) a temperate climate.
B) a time with harsh winters and short but hot summers.
C) a time with an intense rainy season.
D) a time with frigid weather year round.

Question 9

During one 10,000-year period at a settlement in Abri Pataud, France, which prey was vital for Cro-Magnon survival?

A) Mammoths.
B) Reindeer.
C) Trout.
D) Game fowl.

Question 10

Paleolithic Cave Art usually depicts …

A) plants.
B) animals.
C) topographic features.
D) people.

Question 11

Shamans were perceived to possess extraordinary spiritual powers that allowed them to communicate with …

A) ancestors.
B) animals.
C) a variety of gods and spirits.
D) All of these.

Question 12

Tundra hunters lived …

A) in large villages.
B) in small, flexible bands.
C) in family groups.
D) in sedentary groups.

Question 13

Hunter-gatherers in Eurasia constructed dome-shaped houses made out of what product?

A) Tree logs.
B) Mammoth bones.
C) Ice blocks.
D) Movable boulders.

Question 14

Studies of dental morphology indicate Native Americans are called …

A) sinodonts.
B) mesomorphs.
C) sundadonts.
D) None of these.

Question 15

The Dyuktai people lived in …

A) China.
B) Siberia.
C) Europe.
D) Australia.

Question 16

Most archaeologists believe that the Americas were peopled no earlier than how many years ago?

A) 10,000 years ago.
B) 15,000 years ago.
C) 20,000 years ago.
D) 25,000 years ago.

Question 17

Many archaeologists theorize that the Bering Land Bridge connected which two parts of the current world?

A) North America with South America.
B) New Guinea with Australia.
C) Siberia with Alaska.
D) None of these.

Question 18

What is the name given to the original prehistoric inhabitants of the Americas?

A) Cro-Magnons.
B) Dyuktai people.
C) Mesa people.
D) Paleo-Indians.

Question 19

The Monte Verde site in northern Chile provides reliable evidence of settlement dated to how many years ago?

A) 8,000 years ago.
B) 10,000 years ago.
C) 13,000 years ago.
D) 15,000 years ago.

Question 20

What is the name given to the cultural tradition that existed over much of North and Central America from about 11,200 to 11,000 BC?

A) Mesa.
B) Clovis.
C) Dyuktai.
D) Cordilleran.

Question 21

The last ice sheets retreated from Europe and Asia about 15,000 years ago. Discuss the challenges facing early human settlers moving into those new regions.

Question 22

Compare and contrast the differences between the Cro-Magnon way of life and that of earlier humans, such as the Neanderthals.

Question 23

Discuss the Cro-Magnon concern with body ornamentation that coincided with the onset of cave painting. What social implications do these practices have in terms of cultural evolution?

Question 24

Discuss the relationship between Cro-Magnon art (visual forms) and the social world of the Cro-Magnon people.

Question 25

Discuss the evidence for a land bridge between Asia and the Americas.