Deck 11: Modern Homo Sapiens

Question 1

Overall, the current molecular data tend to support the multiregional hypothesis of modern human origins.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

As of now, the oldest known fossils classified as H. sapiens sapiens came from

A) Asia.
B) South America.
C) Europe.
D) Africa.
E) Australia.

Answer 2

Africa.

Question 3

In an early version of the Single-Origin Hypothesis of modern human origins (from the 1950s), the source population for the replacement was presumed to be

A) Cro-Magnons from France.
B) Homo sapiens sapiens from Africa.
C) "progressive" Neanderthals from the Near East.
D) anatomically modern humans from Israel.
E) Archaic Homo sapiens from Asia.

Answer 3

"progressive" Neanderthals from the Near East.

Question 4

The Dorset culture engaged in caribou hunting by

A) individual hunters stalking individual animals.
B) chasing animals on to thin ice.
C) working together and driving animals into rock-walled enclosures they had built.
D) using their sled dogs to track and pursue the caribou.
E) using harpoons rather than spears.

Question 5

According to Multiregional Hypothesis of modern human origins, modern humans evolved in various parts of ________ after Homo erectus spread out of ________.

A) Asia; Africa
B) Europe; Africa
C) the New World; Asia
D) the Old World; Africa
E) Europe; Asia

Question 6

Aurignacian tools -- a stone tool technology that began in Europe about 35,000 years ago -- included a high proportion of

A) flake tools.
B) hand axes.
C) chopping tools.
D) Clovis points.
E) blade tools.

Question 7

Based on molecular evidence from mtDNA, the timing of divergence for modern humans from their archaic ancestors is about

A) 50,000 years ago.
B) 200,000 years ago.
C) 20,000 years ago.
D) 500,000 years ago.
E) 80,000 years ago.

Question 8

Pleistocene megafauna did not include

A) giant ground sloths.
B) giant fox.
C) Siberian mammoth.
D) wolly rhinoceros.
E) giant deer.

Question 9

The name given to the land connection that linked eastern Siberia with Alaska during the last Ice Age is

A) the Bering Strait.
B) Beringia.
C) the Siberia-Alaska land bridge.
D) the New World connection.
E) the Clovis corridor.

Question 10

The Monte Verde site in Chile contains evidence of

A) no stone tools.
B) hide covered huts.
C) a child's footprint.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 11

Radiocarbon dating of Neanderthal remains from the Croatian sites of Vindija and Velika Pecina suggests that these archaic humans survived until as recently as

A) 30,000 years ago.
B) 35,000 to 45,000 years ago.
C) 24,500 years ago.
D) 28,000 to 29,000 years ago.
E) 20,000 years ago.

Question 12

Based on current archaeological evidence, which continent appears to have been the last one to be populated by modern Homo sapiens?

A) North America
B) Australia
C) Asia
D) South America
E) Europe

Question 13

The Single-Origins Hypothesis implies little genetic diversity among modern Homo sapiens.

Question 14

Up until recently, paleoanthropologists thought that anatomically modern humans evolved about

A) 250,000 years ago.
B) 200,000 years ago.
C) 150,000 years ago.
D) 100,000 years ago.
E) 50, 000 years ago.

Question 15

The makers of the Folsom point used this small projectile point to hunt a wide variety of animal species; the largest animal they hunted was the

A) mammoth.
B) mastodon.
C) wild horse.
D) wild camel.
E) straight-horned bison.

Question 16

Which of the following is not known from examples of representational art dating to the Upper Paleolithic?

A) cave paintings showing rare astronomical phenomena such as eclipses or comets
B) cave paintings both in the living areas of caves and in deep, hard-to-access reaches of caves
C) carved animals decorating spear shafts
D) "Venus" figurines depicting female forms
E) cave paintings that tend to depict either animals that may have been hunted or may have been feared

Question 17

The Arctic Small Tool Tradition is associated with the first human migrations into

A) the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
B) Alaska and the Yukon.
C) British Columbia.
D) the northern prairies.
E) the American northwest.

Question 18

________ tools were one of the innovations of Archaic peoples in the New World.

A) Ground stone woodworking
B) Acheulian
C) Clovis
D) Bifacial flaked
E) Levallois

Question 19

Large, lead-shaped points associated with Mammoth kill sites in the New World are called

A) Palaeindian.
B) Clovis.
C) Monte Verde.
D) Carolingian.
E) Acheulian.

Question 20

The presence of the FOXP2 gene in Neandertals suggests they

A) had language.
B) had culture.
C) interbred with modern humans.
D) were bipedal.
E) were lactose intolerant.

Question 21

Where did modern humans emerge? Summarize and compare the current theories.

Question 22

What specialized structural anatomical features enabled the emergence of speech?

Question 23

The Cro-Magnon fossils remain the oldest evidence of anatomically modern populations in Western Europe.

Question 24

In South Asia the Upper Paleolithic saw an increasingly sedentary lifestyle developing along the banks of freshwater streams.

Question 25

Dorset technology was somewhat limited when compared to later Thule technology.

Question 26

Average annual temperatures in the Upper Paleolithic were as much as 10 degrees Celsius above today's.

Question 27

Upper Paleolithic art was confined to cave paintings.

Question 28

Anthropologists agree that North American Indigenous people originally came from Asia.

Question 29

In addition to the use of stone tools, the Upper paleolithic also saw large numbers of tools made from bone, antler and ivory.

Question 30

In southwest Asia, anatomically modern remains have been excavated from regions where Neandertals have also be discovered.

Question 31

Jean-Pierre Duhard argues that Upper Paleolithic depictions of men and children in art, are just as common as depictions of women.

Question 32

The site of Dolni Vestnice dates to about 40,000 years ago.