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Question 1

what are absolute dating methods?

Answer 1

radio carbon dating

Question 2

what polarity are we in?

Answer 2

Brunhes normal

Question 3

what polarity where we in 780k years ago?

Answer 3

Matuyama reversed

Question 4

how can we use polarity to date sites?

Answer 4

magnetic pull direction changes the way sediments rest before sedimenting so you can meswhat polarity something occurred in.

Question 5

what tools where h Heidelbergensis using when the moved into Europe?

Answer 5

hand axes

Question 6

faunal remains found in Sima de los Huesos?

Answer 6

cave bears, wild cats, lynx, cave lions grey wolfs and red foxes.

Question 7

minimum number of individuals in sima de los huesos?

Answer 7

28

Question 8

where was the original neanderthal found?

Answer 8

1856 Feldhofer cave, Germany

Question 9

where and what was found in spy d’orneau cave

Answer 9

in Belgium 2 neanderthal skeletons 1886

Question 10

what was found in chapelle-aux-saints, France?

Answer 10

mostly complete old man with arthritis in 1908.
raises questions of potential intentional burial.

Question 11

what was found in lla ferrassie, France?

Answer 11

6 individuals from 1907-1922

Question 12

what was found in shanidar cave iraq?

Answer 12

9 individuals in 1950s

Question 13

what was found in roc de Marsal, France?

Answer 13

3 year old child 1960s-70s

Question 14

Earliest Real Neandertal fossils?

Answer 14

Ehringsdorf Germany -1908
dated to 250 kya, a mandible

Question 15

how old are the most recent Neandertal fossils?

Answer 15

Mezmaiskaya Russia, from 40,000 years ago.

Question 16

when did Hominis start using fire?

Answer 16

handful of claims for fire use in Africa dated to between 2 and 1 million years ago. more accurate claims 1million to 300,00s years ago. earliest definitive evidence is 250 to 300 thousand years ago.

Question 17

What did Neandertals eat?

Answer 17

A lot of meat, rain deer, bison and horses

Question 18

when was the appearance of Homo Habilis?

Answer 18

2.8 million years ago in Africa

Question 18

when was the appearance of Homo Erectus?

Answer 18

1.7 million years ago in Africa

Question 19

when was the appearance of Homo Ergaster?

Answer 19

2 million years ago in africa

Question 20

when did Homo Erectus travel out of africa?

Answer 20

1.7 million years ago

Question 21

When did Homo Erectus reach Nihewan Basin and Java?

Answer 21

Nihewan 1.6 million years ago
Java 1.4 million years ago

Question 22

What where the three major migration waves into Europe?

Answer 22

Some form of H. Erectus arrives 1.4 million years ago. Then Homo Hiedelbergensis arrives 600,000 years ago and evolves into Neanderthals and we modern humans arrive 45,000 years ago.

Question 23

what was found in Layer 9 of the Sima Del Elephante and where is the Sima Del elephante located.

Answer 23

Northern spain
mandibel fragment
finger bone
and oldowan tools

Question 24

how old are the important layers in Sima Del Elephante, and Gran Dolina?

Answer 24

oldest layer 1.9 mya
layer 9 1.25 mya
layer 6 850k years ago

Question 25

What was found in the Gran Dolina Layer 6 and how old was it?

Answer 25

Mandible dating back to 850k years ago.

Question 26

can you Order these from oldest to newest: neanderthals, Hiedelbergensis, Erectus, Sapians Sapiens, Ergaster and habilis?

Answer 26

Habilis, Ergaster, Erectus, Hiedelbergensis, Neanderthals and Sapiens Sapiens.

Question 27

what species brought Acheulian hand axes to Europe?

Answer 27

Homo Hiedelbergensis