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Lesson 5
Mizzou online "Anthropology"
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
06/12/2013

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The rate of environmental change, rate of change in geographic barriers, and effectivenss of the group's adaptive response all helped to determine
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whether evolution was fast or slow for hominids
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the hominid fossil record seems to support a punctuated equilibrium, which means
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there were long periods of little change, interrupted by sudden evolutionary jumps
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Unlike Acheulian tool-making technology, the Upper Paleolithic technology
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involved the joining of reworked blades to other materials to form composite tools.
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What trends in the archaeological record mark the changeover from the mousterian to the Upper Paleolithic?
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an increase in the number of distinct tool types
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Which had the largest cranial capacity?
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Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
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Anatomically modern humans appeared in Western Europe after
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40,000 B.P.
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compared to Neandertals, archaic H. sapiens had all of the following except
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a larger brain
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Prior to the ending of the Wurm glacial period (17,000-12,000 years ago), European Homo sapiens depended for food most heavily on
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big game animals
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Which of the following changes occurred during the Mesolithic?
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increasing dependence on a greater variety of collected foods
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What age was just prior to the changeover to food production in Europe and the Near East?
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Mesolithic
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the upper paleolithic is associated with what tool type?
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microlith
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Neandertals are believed to have coexisted in time with
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archaic homo sapiens
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homo erectus is roughly associated with the
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lower paleolithic
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What is the charactersitic Acheulian tool?
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the hand ax
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What was the dominant view of neandertal in the early 1900s?
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Neandertal was a brutish "ape-man" not ancestral to humans
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About which of the following statements do anthropologists agree most?
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Neandertal left no descendants among modern humans
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What was first discovered in a German valley in 1856?
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a neandertal fossil
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What theory was based on research done in 1987 on mitochondrial DNA from 147 human placentas?
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Everyone alive today descended from a woman dubbed "eve".
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Discoveries of Upper Paleolithic tools suggest that
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clothes were being worn
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Most cave paintings or cave art found in southern France and northeastern Spain is associated with
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Upper Paleolithic
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