Question 1

What is the significance of Kennewick Man? Does Kennewick prove that the first settlers of the New World were not the ancestors of modern American Indians?

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Question 2

Discuss the mtDNA of the native people of the New World. What does their mtDNA imply about the source or sources of their population?

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Question 3

Based on archaeology and genetics, present a scenario for the earliest movement of people into the New World.

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Question 4

Who was the Anzick boy?

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Question 5

Who was the Mal'ta boy?
32 Who were Sunrise child-girl and Dawn twilight child-girl? What does the analysis of their DNA tell us about the peopling of the Americas?

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32 Who were...

Question 6

Did overhunting by Paleoindians cause the extinction of large game animals in North American at the end of the Pleistocene? Did overhunting by native Australians cause the
extinction of megafauna in Australia?

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Question 7

What insights about the massive wave of animal extinction that affected Australia about 45,000 years ago have been gained through the study of the shells of the indigenous, flightless birds, the emu and Genyornis newtoni?

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Question 8

What does the analysis of mitochondrial haplogroups tell us about the source of the native population of the New World? What about the X haplogroup?

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Question 9

Is there a connection between the Solutrean and Clovis stone tool traditions? Is there any evidence for a European source for Clovis?

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Question 10

Using the Messages from the Past section of this chapter as a jumping off point, how can the cultural dislocation caused by extinction at the end of the Pleistocene in the New World (whatever its cause) inform us about the possible impacts of extinction in our modern world?

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Quiz 7: Expanding Geographical Horizons: New Worlds