ANTH 1013: TEST 3
49 Cards in this Set
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When did Neanderthals go out?
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30,000-35,000 mya
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Brain size in Australopithecus and Paranthropus were about the same size as which animal?
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Chimp
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Taung child falls under...
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Africanus
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Last (latest) upper Pleolithic period is called
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Magdalenian
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Hominins originated in...
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Africa
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American Indians come from
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Siberia
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Fire was created by..
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Homo heidelbergensis
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Which of the following came immediately before (older than) and was likely ancestral to A. Afarensis?
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A. anamensis
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Homo is notable for increased....
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brain size
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Paranthropus boisei goes with huge
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molar teeth and jaws
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Earliest habilis was around
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2.1
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Most people expected this to come first in human evolution
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big brains
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Australopithecines and humans share that they have
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bipedal locomotion
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Hominids found in South African caves likely got there because
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they were eaten by leopards, who dragged them off to caves
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Upper Paleolithic began about...
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500,000 years ago
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Homo habilis was first found in
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olduvai Gorge
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Java and peking man are both
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habilis
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Heidelbergenisis is associated with
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levallois technique
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Tool use in habilis is suggested by
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powerful opposable thumbs
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Second species of Homo habilis is called
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homo rudofensis
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Africanus was about....
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2.5-3 mya
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Home base hypothesis says..
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tool sites with few tools were kill sites where an animal was butchered
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Sexual dimorphism in hominins suggests
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that they were polygynous
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What was the shape of Homo Erectus skull?
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bell shaped
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Anatomically modern Homo sapiens come from
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Africa
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Cave art was found in Europe because
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caves preserve the art well
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Locomotor skeleton of Homo erectus showed
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it was essentialy mordern in forms
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One distinctive character of hedelbergnisis was
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arched eye brow ridges
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Narrow pelvis of Homo erectus means
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it had smaller brain size relative to body size
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Robustus only in...
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South Africa
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Homo erectus was significant because
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it was the migration of homo out of Africa
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Dart thought taung child was related to humans
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because the position of its foramen magnum indicated Bipedalism
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Heidelbergensis lived about
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400,000 years ago
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Olduwan stone culture charactered by
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simple flakes and choppers
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What did Piltdown man proved?
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nothing, it was a hoax
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Neanderthalensis differs from modern sapiens in
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having flat visor like cheek bones
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Earliest member of genus homo is
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habilis
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One cultural feature that sapiens are really unique is
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sophisticated symbolic art
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Fact that Neanderthals buried dead suggests
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belief in afterlife or hygiene
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Stone tool culture with erectus is
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osteodontokeratic
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Stone tool tech with Neanderthals called
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olduwan
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Sapiens characterized by
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prominent chin, vertical forehead, weak or absent brow ridges, straight side cranial vault
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Function of brow ridges is..
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no known function
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Analysis of MDNA from Neanderthal shows
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Neanderthals were no one modern population, separate species
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What is a uniquely human characteristic?
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Symbolic language and sophisticated symbolic art
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The osteodontoeratic tool culture turned out to be
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bones eaten by hyenas
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Neanderthals lived in
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Europe
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The atlatl is used to
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throw spears
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Many anatomical features of neadenthalensis suggests
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they were adapted to cold environment
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ANTH 1013: TEST 3