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| The work of different kinds of scientists contributes to our understanding of the history, geography, and the people of Southwest Asia and Egypt. An anthropologist is a scientist who studies |
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| Human beings and their societies |
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| Archaeologists learn about prehistoric cultures by studying all the following, EXCEPT |
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Which of the following is an artifact that might be found in a site where Old Stone Age people lived? |
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| necklace of breads made from bones |
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| Which one of the following four hominids developed before the other three in the evolution of humans? |
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| During the glacial periods, Old Stone Age people kept war by all of the following means, EXCEPT by |
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| wearing woven woolen clothing |
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| Old Stone Age people obtained their food by all of the following means, EXCEPT |
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| Homo sapiens were found in almost all parts of the world by 12,000 years ag because they |
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| migrated widely when sea levels were low during glacial period |
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| Homo sapiens came to North America by |
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| a land bridge that linked what is now Siberia to what is now Alaska |
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| The end of the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia and Egypt is generally accepted to be when |
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| tools and weapons were made from iron |
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| Which of the following animals was LEAST likely to be domesticated in Neolithic period? |
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| Neolithic farmers found that the soil along rivers was especially fertile because |
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| annual flooding replenished the land with a layer of topsoil |
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| The FIRST crops MOST likely to have been planted by Neolithic people were |
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| Which came FIRST in the development of cultures of humans? |
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| migration of Homo sapiens to the Western Hemisphere |
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| The fuel by people in Neolithic villages for fires for heat and cooking was |
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