Chapter 4: From Homo Erectus to Neanderthals

Question 1

Bose

Answer 1

a site in southern China that produced a stone tool industry that includes handaxes

Question 2

Eurasian Acheulian

Answer 2

• a stone tool industry found on sites through-out the Middle East and Europe
• the handaxe is the characteristic tool of this industry

Question 3

Kebara Cave

Answer 3

a site in Israel where excavations have produced important evidence about the nature of Neanderthal occupation of caves and the most complete skeletons of a Neanderthal

Question 4

La Cotte de St. Brelade

Answer 4

the location on the Jersey Islands where evidence of Neanderthals hunting mammoths by stampeding them off a cliff was found

Question 5

Mezmaiskaya Cave

Answer 5

the location that has produced the most recent Neanderthal fossil

Question 6

Middle Paleolithic

Answer 6

the archaeo-logical period during which Neanderthals occupied Europe

Question 7

Prepared-core technology

Answer 7

• dominant tool manufacture during the Middle Paleolithic
• carefully shaped core which controls the form of the flakes produced

Question 8

Pleistocene

Answer 8

• the geological era that began 1.8 million years ago, characterized by the frequent buildup and retreat of continental ice sheets
• when the evolution of the Neanderthals took place

Question 9

Schöningen

Answer 9

the location in Germany where 400,000-year-old wooden spears were discovered

Question 10

Zhoukoudian

Answer 10

caves in Longgushan, or Dragon Bone Hill, outside of Beijing (Peking), China, where the remains of more than 40 Homo erectus individuals and over 100,000 stone choppers and flakes