The find location of fossil footsteps preserved in volcanic ash, 3.5 mya.

What was the general trend of climate change in Africa several million years ago?

A general trend toward cooling and drying

Humans are primates. Typical features that make us primates are:

Stereoscopic, color vision, Nails, Manipulative, grasping hands

How is the anatomy of Turkana boy different from the anatomy of Lucy?

Turkana boy has a narrower hip, Turkana boy has a more barrel-shaped chest, Turkana boy has a larger brain

The Clovis culture can be characterized as

a short-lived culture of mobile hunter-gatherers in North America

The site of Schoeningen, Germany, is famous for

Wooden spears of ca 300.000 years old

The Movius line refers to

The northern limit of the distribution of bifacial tools (the Acheulean)

The term 'retouch' refers to

Intentional modification to sharpen or shape the edge of a stone tool.

A technique typical of the Mousterian and middle paleolithic

What is meant by broad spectrum economy?

An economy based on hunting and gathering a broad range of resources.

Homo heidelbergensis is

A more robust, big-brained version of H. erectus found in Africa and Europe

A site in Tanzania, that gave the name to the Oldowan stone tool trade.

Who made the Oldowan? It is not clear, but it may include which species?

Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, robust Australopithicus (or Paranthropus), gracile Australopithecus

Neandertal anatomy differs from Homo sapiens. In which respects?

Neandertals have relatively short limbs compared to Homo sapiens, Neandertals have more curved and robust femurs than Homo sapiens, Neandertals are shorter and stockier than Homo sapiens

Evidence of modern behaviour is often represented as a list of traits. They include

increased typological diversity and standardization of tools, use of fire

Evidence for the use of fire

is more common at sites younger than 300.000 years old

Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, is known for

Some of the earliest fossils of Homo sapiens around 300.000 years old

Typical Aurignacian tool types are

strangulated blades and nosed endscrapers

The site on Java where Dubois found the type fossils of Homo erectus

Key traits of humans emerged in which order (from oldest to most recent):

Bipedal locomotion, stone tools, larger brains, art and symbolism

The find location of the earliest hominins and stone tools outside Africa

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1
Laetoli is
The find location of a robust Australopithicus, around 3 mya.
The find location of the earliest specimen of Homo, around 2.85 mya.
The find location of the earliest stone tools, dating 3.5 mya.
The find location of fossil footsteps preserved in volcanic ash, 3.5 mya.
2
What was the general trend of climate change in Africa several million years ago?
A general trend toward warmer and wetter conditions
A general trend toward cooler and wetter conditions
A general trend toward cooling and drying
A general trend toward warming and drying
3
Lucy was a...
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus aethiopicus
4
This cave contains some of the oldest paleolithic cave art in Europe, depicting among others lions, horses and rhinos.
Altamira
Chauvet
Lascaux
Niaux
5
Humans are primates. Typical features that make us primates are:
Stereoscopic, color vision
Emphasis on hind limbs for locomotion
Nails
Manipulative, grasping hands
6
How is the anatomy of Turkana boy different from the anatomy of Lucy?
Turkana boy has a more flat face with a chin
Turkana boy has a narrower hip
Turkana boy has a more barrel-shaped chest
Turkana boy has a larger brain
7
The Clovis culture can be characterized as
a short-lived culture of mobile hunter-gatherers in North America
a group of bison hunting specialists of the North American plains
a group of Californian foragers with a near-sedentary lifestyle.
highly mobile hunter-gatherers who were the first to colonize South America
8
The Acheulean is characterized by which stone tool type?
chopper
blade
scraper
biface
9
The site of Schoeningen, Germany, is famous for
Wooden spears of ca 300.000 years old
Well-preserved fossils of about 30 individuals of Homo heidelbergensis
Regular, incised lines ('art') on a mammoth rib of 300.000 years old
Bifacial tools associated with horse remains of 500.000 years old
10
Neandertals lived between
400 and 40 thousand years ago
150 and 40 thousand years ago
40 and 10 thousand years ago
200 and 10 thousand years ago
11
The Movius line refers to
The northern limit of the first dispersals of Homo erectus outside Africa
The line on the top of the skull where the muscles of the jaws attach to
The line or lines on teeth that indicate a period of severe malnutrition
The northern limit of the distribution of bifacial tools (the Acheulean)
12
The term 'retouch' refers to
Typical use marks found on stone tools after use for cutting or scraping.
Intentional modification of a core to produce a sharp flake.
Typical use marks found on animal bones after butchering with stone tools.
Intentional modification to sharpen or shape the edge of a stone tool.
13
Levallois is
A stone tool type of the Aurignacian
A technique typical of the Mousterian and middle paleolithic
A stone tool type of the Mousterian
A technique for stone tool making typical of the Aurignacian
14
What is meant by broad spectrum economy?
A subsistence economy with broad usage of all parts of hunted animals.
Hunting and gathering with men, women and children.
An economy based on hunting and gathering a broad range of resources.
A subsistence economy combining hunting, gathering and agriculture.
15
Homo heidelbergensis is
A robust, East Asian, late variety of Homo erectus
A large, early Homo, contemporaneous with H. habilis found in Africa
A more robust, big-brained version of H. erectus found in Africa and Europe
The robust variety of H. erectus, evolved in Europe after colonisation
16
Olduvai is:
The oldest site found out of Africa, dating to about 1.8 mya.
The find location of the earliest stone tools, dating 3.5 mya.
The find location of the earliest Oldowan stone tools.
A site in Tanzania, that gave the name to the Oldowan stone tool trade.
17
How old is Dmanisi?
1.4 million years
2.1 million years
1.2 million years
1.8 million years
18
Who made the Oldowan? It is not clear, but it may include which species?
Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis
robust Australopithicus (or Paranthropus)
gracile Australopithecus
19
Neandertal anatomy differs from Homo sapiens. In which respects?
Neandertals have relatively short limbs compared to Homo sapiens
Neandertals have more curved and robust femurs than Homo sapiens
Neandertals have smaller brains than Homo sapiens
Neandertals are shorter and stockier than Homo sapiens
20
Evidence of modern behaviour is often represented as a list of traits. They include
increased typological diversity and standardization of tools
language
use of fire
hunting of large animals
21
Where was "Lucy" found?
Laetoli
Turkana
Olduvai
Hadar
22
Which culture existed between 18 and 13 thousand years ago in (Western) Europe?
Aurignacian
Mousterian
Magdalenian
Gravettian
23
Evidence for the use of fire
is absent before 300.000 years ago
is common from 1.5 million years onwards
is rare until the Late Paleolithic around 40.000 years ago
is more common at sites younger than 300.000 years old
24
Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, is known for
Some of the earliest fossils of Homo sapiens around 300.000 years old
Burial of several Neandertal individuals around 70.000 years ago
First Homo sapiens found outside of Africa around 100-120.000 years ago
DNA evidence of interbreeding between sapiens and Neandertals.
25
Typical Aurignacian tool types are
barbed bone points and backed segments
backed bladelets and burins
fluted points and flake endscrapers
strangulated blades and nosed endscrapers
26
Trinil is
The site on Java where Dubois found the type fossils of Homo erectus
The site in Tanzania where the oldest Acheulean tools have been found
The site in Kenia where the most complete H. erectus individual was found.
The site in Indonesia where the oldest Asian H. erectus fossils were found.
27
Key traits of humans emerged in which order (from oldest to most recent):
Bipedal locomotion, larger brains, stone tools, art and symbolism.
Stone tools, bipedal locomotion, art and symbolism, larger brains
Larger brains, bipedal locomotion, stone tools, art and symbolism
Bipedal locomotion, stone tools, larger brains, art and symbolism
28
Dmanisi is:
The find location of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa
The find location of the earliest stone tools in Africa
The site in Indonesia where the first Homo erectus fossils discovered
The find location of the earliest hominins and stone tools outside Africa
29
Which species suffix (e.g. sapiens of Homo sapiens) is NOT used for a member of the Homo-lineage?
erectus
habilis
rudolfensis
boisei
30
Turkana boy belongs to which species
Homo erectus/ergaster
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis

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