ENVI201 Midterm Review

The earliest state in Africa outside of Egypt appears to be that of _, in Nubia (modern Sudan).

The origins of agriculture in East Asia involved the cultivation of two main plant species:

Much of what we know about pre-European Polynesian social organization comes from:

The Turkana Boy skeleton belongs to which species?

All state-level societies developed a form of writing.

Jomon-period Japan is an example of

Homo ergaster was probably the first human species to leave Africa.

Contact b/w cultures allows for the spread of innovations. This process is known as:

Which of the following behaviors is NOT associated with the Neanderthals:

The earliest plants to be domesticated in Mexico and perhaps in all of the Americas were:

Recent archaeology draws on processualism & postprocessualism to interpret the past.

The earliest evidence in Europe for _____________ comes from sites near Almería in Spain.

Fossils from deposits dating to ___________ clearly belong to anatomically modern Homo sapiens.

Evidence for Pleistocene climate in the Yangzi Valley, & the domestication of rice, comes from:

Lewis Binford described Late Epipaleolithic societies as being _______ rather than foragers.

At African sites, the adoption of pottery always came after the adoption of agriculture.

Ancient Egyptian writing:

Madagascar was colonized by Austronesians who sailed west across the Indian Ocean.

Unlike in later periods, Paleoindian period bison kill-sites:

A flat stone flaked on both sides to produce a sharp edge around the entire periphery is a:

Early Homo species evolved from one of the __ australopithecines, perhaps A. garhi

The Easter Islanders were the only Polynesians to construct large stone monuments or temples.

A. aethiopicus, A. robustus, and A. boisei are all classified as __________ australopithecines.

The semi-sedentary Late Epipaleolithic group discovered by Garrod in the Levant are:

Researchers found that hunter-gatherer groups who reached of Cyprus by 10,000 BC:

Both rice and millet are native to Korea, they did not need to be introduced from abroad.

The living primate that is most closely related to humans is the gorilla.

No skeletons which display traits of both H. sapiens and H. ergaster have been found in Africa.

The current inter-glacial epoch, which began around 11,600 years ago, is called the:

On average, the cranial capacity of Neanderthals was more than that of modern humans.

The visible archaeological evidence for Amazon human occupation during the Archaic period is:

Contact between the people of South America and Polynesia was

The population of aceramic Neolithic Çatalhöyük:

Which of the following is NOT a key feature of a state:

Archaeology can be defined as:

The only domesticated animal that was present throughout both Americas was the:

Farming spread across the all of Europe w/in 2500 yrs as a result of the movement of people

Ling. data points to _ as the home of both the Austroasiatic & Austronesian lang. families.

Which of the following is a common trait among most primates:

The primary way that Homo heidelbergensis differed from both H. erectus and H. ergaster is that

The earliest stone tools are from the ___________ industry.

Two major Neolithic cultures that developed in the Yellow River Valley of central China are:

In most of Africa the earliest metallurgy was based on:

The first domesticated animal was the _____, domesticated by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Social complexity

Europeans introduced domesticated tobacco to the Americas in the early 17th century.

Austronesian languages:

Most Neolithic figurines found in southeastern Europe are either female or genderless.

The evolution of modern humans occurred during a time of:

According to our current knowledge, Neanderthals first appeared in

Sedentary Late Epipaleolithic hunter-gather sites have been found in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.

“Delayed return” strategies that may have been employed by Late Epipaleolithic groups include:

A common feature of Natufian sites are items of personal adornment, often found in burials.

Which of the following is a possible explanation for why Polynesians chose to migrate?

Most southern African rock art depicts:

During the course of hominin evolution, which of the following traits came first:

Horses were first domesticated in the colder regions of northern Europe and Scandinavia.

The variability of living human mtDNA:

Based on human burials, rice cultivation reached Japan by the intrusion of outsiders from:

In ethnic terms, there may never have been a unified group of people who called themselves:

Domesticated dog burials at Archaic sites in the E. Woodlands of N. America have been found.

Around 2000 BC Australians must have had some contact with people from SE Asia because of:

Stonehenge

Venus figurines:

Although it draws on other disciplines (e.g. botany & geology) Archaeology is considered to be:

The Egyptians were the only African culture to build pyramids.

When considering long-term sedentism among Holocene Australians:

Much of our information about the Celts comes from

The Neolithic burial of the dead beneath houses & the recovery & treatment of skulls represents

The oldest prepared mummies in the world date to 5800 BC and were made by the people in:

In current knowledge, the Acheulean technological tradition is was first used by:

The Archaic Period in NA, started around 9500 BC, coincides w/environmental changes related to:

The process of evolution can results in many closely related branches of species.

Different states might develop

Agriculture was developed in only the Fertile Crescent, & spread out from there.