QUIZ 7

Question 1

Which of the following species is a potential ancestor to Australopithecus afarensis?

Answer 1

Australopithecus anamensis

Question 2

A prime example of human symbolic expression is the cave at Lascaux, France, which contains cave art dated to how many years ago?

Answer 2

17,000

Question 3

Which of the following places was the site of the 1868 first significant discovery in Europe of Paleolithic anatomically modern Homo sapiens burials?

Answer 3

Les Eyzies, France

Question 4

Currently, the most ancient Homo sapiens fossils date to 195,000 years ago and are from Omo Kibish in the Omo River valley, which is in which of the following regions of the world?

Answer 4

East Africa

Question 5

Which of the following combinations of features characterizes modern humans?

Answer 5

vertical forehead and relatively small brow ridges

Question 6

True or false? Scientists are very certain about the evolutionary relationships between modern humans and all human ancestors who lived in the past.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Which of the following species is associated with the production of Venus figurines?

Answer 7

Homo sapiens

Question 8

The “Creative Explosion” is attributed to which of the following species?

Answer 8

Homo sapiens

Question 9

The Upper Paleolithic is associated with the following cultural traditions except:

Answer 9

Acheulean

Question 10

True or false? Upper Paleolithic tools are ONLY associated with Homo sapiens.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

True or false? More cultural innovation has occurred in the last 15, 000 years than in the previous 2.6 million years.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Which of the following best describes the two competing hypotheses regarding the relationships among the robust australopiths?

Answer 12

1. Australopithecus boisei and A. robustus are sister taxa that evolved from A. aethiopicus OR, 2. the South African and East African taxa are separate lineages

ANSWER 2.

Question 13

True or false? The Out of Africa model of modern human origins suggests that modern humans evolved exclusively in Africa.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or false? Even after Darwinian evolutionary theory became widely accepted, the concept of the Great Chain of Being persisted in the idea that evolution proceeded as a single unbroken line of ascent.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Australopithecus underwent an adaptive radiation between 2-4 million years ago.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Which of the following best describes an evolutionary lineage?

Answer 16

A sequence of species that form a line of descent. Each new species is the direct result of speciation from an immediate ancestral species.

Question 17

True or false? Upper Paleolithic modern humans and Neandertals had similar capacities for symbolic expression.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

The Upper Paleolithic is characterized by:

Answer 18

Blade technology

Question 19

Of the following, which best characterizes pre-Homo hominins compared to apes?

Answer 19

enlarged cheek teeth, bipedalism, canine reduction

Question 20

One of the first discoveries of rock art was in:

Answer 20

Altamira (Spain) in the late 1800’s