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| Neanderthals have distinctive physical characteristics; one explanation offered for these distinctive features is? |
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| Short thick squaty bodies that were cold adapted as a direct result of living in a glacial env. To preserve body heat. Probably the best explanation as to why there are no more neanderthals is because we don't live in that env. Anymore. |
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| The site that contains the fossil remains of the oldest modern humans |
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site is in the very southern tip of africa, Klasier river mouth.
100,000 ya |
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| Index fossil associated with fully modern human is? |
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| Neanderthal tool assemblage that contains 50-80% scrapers that were simple, thick, and convex is called? |
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| The regional continuity model for the origins of modern humans? |
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Shows erectines getting out of Africa 1.8 million years ago. Replacement model puts them out of Africa 200,000 years ago.
(who are the authors, what was the evidence, what was the criticism against them) |
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| The sites of Skhul and Qafzeh demonstrate that? |
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| Demonstrate humans and neanderthals living side by side. |
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| The total replacement model for origins of modern humans is based on? |
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| Mitochondrial DNA on the mothers side |
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| The site of Sima de los Huesos and Arago contain fossil evidence that supports? |
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| Neanderthals coming 200,000 years ago |
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| Lewis Binford with his wife addressed the Mousterian problem, what were their results? |
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| Included denticulates, longbones, skulls, pollen |
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| Bordes explained the variation in Mousterian tool assemblage as the result of? |
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Tenacious cultures/tribes
There were 63 different neanderthal tool types and Bordes classification system works for them all. |
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| Katanda is an important site because it? |
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| Harpoons and bone tools. 50,000 years ahead of European sites. |
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| Archaic Homo sapiens fossils show up in the fossil record about? What was their distribution? |
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| 600,000 years ago in Africa, 200,000 years ago in Asia, and 200,000 years ago in Europe. |
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| Marcellin Boule's reconstruction of "Neanderthal Man" depicted the homnids as? |
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| Stupid crippled beast men that couldn't even walk upright. |
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| Compared to that of modern human beings, Neanderthal cranial capacity is? |
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| The Morphology of the Neanderthals from the neck down implies a biological adaptation to? |
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| A biological adaptation to cold, brawn adapted subsistence pattern. |
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| The Mousterian technology focused on the production of? |
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| Most proponents of the replacement model trace the first human beings to? |
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| Evolution in Africa 100k-200kya in Africa |
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| The bone tools from the Katanda sites in Zaire are significant because they show? |
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It was earlier than in Europe.
50k years before Europe. |
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| Border Cave and Klasies River mouth sites produce fossils that appear to be? |
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| Chatelperronian industry appears to have been? |
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| The period during which modern behavior becomes apparent in the archeological record is the? Know all the culture groups and their significant characteristics: Aurignacian, Gravettian, Soultrian, Magdelanian |
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| In the Upper Paleolithic, the subsistence base? |
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Substance base broadened
Ice sheets |
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| The sites of Kasar Akil and Boker Tachtit are significant |
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| Significant because of shell necklaces, bone tools. They were the right place right time 'invader species' that made it into europe. |
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| The Upper Paleolithic tradition characterized by finely flaked, symmetrical, leaf-shaped projectile points similar to New World Clovis technology is called the |
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| A major technological innovation of the Upper Paleolithic was the? |
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| What is the deal with those so called Venus figurines? |
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| The Pleistocene is characterized by/as? |
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| During the latter part of the Upper Paleolithic the ice sheets retreated and the hunters -gathers had two choices, follow the caribou north or adapt to New Forest environments. The culture group that faced this dilemma was? |
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| The Mousterian tool technology of Levallois, what is that all about? |
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| Was preparedcore technology to make sophisticated flake tools and Levallois points |
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| The Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition is the oldest of the Mousterian tool assemblages and represents the transition from Homo Erectus to Neanderthals. Is this statement true or false? |
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| Where Neanderthals the first humans to leave evidence of a spiritual life in the form of cave bears skull ritually placed on ruck slabs or altars within their habitation sites? |
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No.
Ate cave bears, used cave as shelter. |
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| Who was Dorothy Garrod? Where did she work? What did she discover? |
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Found the first Neanderthal skeleton from outside of Europe in addition to ninety-two thousand stone tools.
Mount Carmel Cave |
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| List six of the characteristics of the Upper Paleolithic that were mentioned in class? |
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Blades
Larger sites
Exotic goods
bone antlers, shell tools
art
elaborate burials |
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| Neanderthals used caves extensively in Europe; yet we see no evidence of the use of caves by Homo erectus. why? |
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| Caves and rock shelters eroded and collapsed. |
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| Could Neanderthals talk? What evidence supports your conclusion? |
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| Yes, they had the right genes and chromosomes |
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