Chapter 7: The Emergence of Homo Sapiens

Question 1

Homo heidelbergensis

Answer 1

A transitional species between Homo erectusand Homo sapiens.

Question 2

The Mousterian

Answer 2

Named after the tool assemblagefound in a rock shelter at Le Moustier in the Dordogne region of southwestern France.

Question 3

The Post-Acheulian in Africa

Answer 3

Like Mousterian tools, many of the post-Acheulian tools in Africa during the Middle Stone Age were struck off prepared cores in the Levalloisian way.

Question 4

Homesites

Answer 4

Most of the excavated Middle Paleolithic homesites in Europe and the Near East are located in caves and rock shelters.

Question 5

How Neanderthals get food?

Answer 5

Varies on their environment.

Question 6

Rituals

Answer 6

At Drachenloch cave in the Swiss Alps, a stone-lined pit holding the stacked skulls of seven cave bears was found in association with a Neandertal habitation.

Question 7

Why preserve these skulls?

Answer 7

One reason might be for rituals intended to placate or control bears.

Question 8

CroMagnon

Answer 8

Humans, who appear in western Europe about 35,000 years ago, were once thought to be the earliest specimens of modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiensBut we now know that modern-looking humans appeared earlier outside of Europe. As of now, the oldest unambiguous fossils classified as H. sapiens come from Ethiopia and date to perhaps 160,000 years ago. Additional fossils, discovered in one of the Klasies River mouth caves in South Africa, arepossibly as old as 100,000 years.

Question 9

What Happened to the Neandertals

Answer 9

Interbreeding
Genocide
Extinction

Question 10

Upper Paleolithic

Answer 10

The time period associated with the emergence of modern humans and their spread around the world from 40,000 years ago to the beginning of the Neolithic. Art, Population Increase, New inventions, Last Ice age.

Question 11

Upper Paleolithic Tools

Answer 11

Characterized by a preponderance of blades; there were also burins, bone and antler tools, and microliths.

Question 12

Homo heidelbergensis

Answer 12

A transitional species between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens.

Question 13

Homesites

Answer 13

Most of the excavated Middle Paleolithic homesites in Europe and the Near East are located in caves and rock shelters.

Question 14

Upper Paleolithic

Answer 14

The time period associated with the emergence of modern humans and their spread around the world from 40,000 years ago to the beginning of the Neolithic

Question 15

Upper Paleolithic Tools

Answer 15

characterized by a preponderance of blades; there were also burins, bone and antler tools, and microliths

Question 16

ethnographic analogy

Answer 16

tool was used for in the past is to observe the manner in which similar tools are used by members of recent or contemporary societies, preferably societies with subsistence activities and environments similar to those of the ancient toolmakers.

Question 17

The Paleo-Indians

Answer 17

Clovis Complex
Folsom
Olsen-Chubbuck

Question 18

The End of the Upper Paleolithic

Answer 18

10,000 years ago