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Test 2 Flashcards

1
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Raymond Dart is credited with the discovery of______

A

Australopithecus Africanus

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2
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Were Australopithicines bipedal ?

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Yes

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Robert “Boom Boom” Broom was credited with the discovery of _____

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Paranthropus Robustus

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4
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What is considered the cradle (womb) of humankind?

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Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge

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5
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Louis and Mary Leakey were credited with the discovery of ______

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Australopithecus, now known as ( Paranthropus Boisei)

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6
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Donald Johanson is credited with the discovery of _____

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Australopithecus Afarensis

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7
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the “Genus” Paranthropus includes the species____

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  1. Bosei

2. Robustus

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the “Genus” Australopithecus includes the species _____

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  1. Africanus

2. Afarensis

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9
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Homo Habilis is believed to have made Oldowan tools by _____

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2.4 MYA

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10
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Louis and Mary Leaky found Homo Habilis in year______

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1960

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Olduvai (oldupai) Gorge is named after the_____

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Oldupai plant (a wild sisal)

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12
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Homo Habilis was a _______

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  • bipedal
  • meat eater (also ate plants)
  • had larger brain than australopithcines
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13
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Homo Erectus was originally called _______

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Pithecanthropus Erectus

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14
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Eugene Dubois is credited with the discovery of ________

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Homo Erectus

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15
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where was “Peking Man” found ?

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Dragon Bone Hill (Choukoutien)

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Peking man was thought to hunt or exploit up to how many kinds of animals?

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96 different mammals

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17
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what happened to the Homo Erectus specimens?

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lost in 1941 (due to war)

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roughly 70% of food bone at Choukoutien came from what animal?

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deer

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Roughly 40% of the skeletons at Choukoutien were _____

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sub-adult

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20
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Choukoutien is the name for what excavation site?

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Dragon Bone Hill

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21
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Which different species remains can be found at Olduvai Gorge? (3 of them)

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  1. Paranthropus Boisei
  2. Homo Habilis
  3. Homo Erectus
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22
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At different times “bosei” remains have been assigned to the genus of (3 of them)

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  1. Zinjanthropus
  2. Australopithecus
  3. Paranthropus (current genus)
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23
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Homo Erectus tools are called_______

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Acheulean tools

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24
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Did Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, and the Australopithicines ever leave Africa?

A

yes

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What group of people may have the world’s longest unbroken culture?

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Australian Aborigines

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How long does it appear Australian Aborigines have been in Australia?

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over 40,000 years

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27
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What is the Didgeridu?

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a musical instrument that may connect you with the past

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28
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How long ago does Australian Aborigine cave art date back too?

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30,000 years ago, roughly

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29
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Male Neandertals had a cranial capacity on average of ______

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1550 cc’s

which is greater than ours today

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30
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Neandertals tools are known as______

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Mousterian tools

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31
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who/what are credited with the ?

  1. first burials
  2. successful surgeries
A

Neandertals

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32
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Some Neandertal DNA can be found in ?

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modern humans

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33
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Who tracks elephant poaching in Africa?

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National Geographic “Warlords of Ivory”

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34
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Up to how many African Elephants are slaughtered every year for their tusks?

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30,000

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35
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The poached ivory is sold for?

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weapons used by terrorists (like ISIS and others) to kill europeans, africans, americans, and others

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36
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How long have the Hadzabe been hunter/gatherers for?

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10,000 years

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37
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The Iraqw used to live in underground houses because ?

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to hide/protect from raiding Maasai tribe and others

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38
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Are the Maasai hunter/gathers and always have been?

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no

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39
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The Datooga are mainly known for their skill in _______

A

metalworking

make bracelets and spoons and arrows they can identify as their own

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40
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What is the Great American Triade (the three sisters)?

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  1. corn
  2. beans
  3. squash
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41
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Corn was domesticated from _____

A

Teosinte

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42
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Who named and explained the “Oases Theory”?

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V. Gordon Childe

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43
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Is agriculture much more labor intensive than food foraging?

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yes

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44
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an example of a obligatory cultigen is ______

45
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What is an obligatory cultigen?

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must be cultivated

46
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What is Teosinte?

A

a non-obligatory cultigen, ancestor of corn

47
Q

Kur Virus

A

like mad cow disease in humans, people go crazy, lose control of muscles, can’t hold up themselves

48
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Loess “Lus” is____

A

organic soil, rich in nutrients

49
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Bronze Age

A

5000 B.C.

  • wine traded
  • vinegar (aged wine) drank like gatorade by romans
  • central gov’t
  • taxes were 1st written record
  • food storage, navigation, social stratification used
50
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how many times sharper than a razor are obsidian tools?

A

500x sharper

51
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first animal domesticated by humans ?

52
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first animal to go to space?

53
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australian aborgines smoked_____

54
Q

do food foragers still exist today?

55
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What is carrying capacity?

A

largest number of people an environment can sustain under a certain set of conditions

56
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the people of Ali Kosh exploited a wide range of _________

A

ecological zones

57
Q

location of first cities?

A

Mesopatamia

58
Q

1st hominid to leave Africa?

A

Homo Erectus

59
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of people at Ali Kosh, during one time?

60
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the “new world settlement” was ____

A

Tehucan Valley

61
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What type of hominid was lucy?

A

Australopithecus Afarensis

62
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How many years have humans been using fire oppurtunistically?

63
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How many years have humans been able to control fire?

A

600,000 years

64
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How many years have humans been domesticators?

A

50,000 years

65
Q

who developed the osteodontokeratic tool use theory?

A

Raymond Dart

66
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the osteodontokeratic tool use theory is?

A

australopithecus used bone and horn animal implements to hunt animals. they may have also been cannabalistic eating other australopithecus’s

67
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what is the “Tuang Baby” also known as “Tuang Child”?

A

fossilized skull of a Australopithecus Africanus? founded by Raymond Dart in 1924

68
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Lucy

A

Australopithecus Afarensis founded Donald Johanson in 1974

  • known as “first human” dated as old a 2.9 MYA
  • she is 40% of fossil remains of a female
  • found in Hadar, Ethiopia
69
Q

First Neanderthal remains were found in _______

A

1856

in Neander Valley

70
Q

years since people of the Tehucan valley lived?

A

7000-1000 BC

exploited peanuts,potatoes, pineapples,chillies, corn, choclate

71
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what is a manuport?

A

something moved by human hands

72
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Mictlan is the ________

A

“land of the dead” known by Aztecs

73
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possible evidence of religion in Neanderthals may include?

A
  1. burial of the dead
  2. use of red ochre in burials
  3. flower pollens in grave
74
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what is the Neolithic revolution?

A

the switch between food foragers to domesticators

11000-5000 YA

75
Q

is children dying proof to the yanamamo that their magic works?

76
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what are Yanamamo micro movements based on?

A

garden plots

77
Q

what is La Chapelle?

A

type site for Neanderthal morphology , known a the “old man”

  • found neaderthal skull in 1908
  • skull was about 60,000 years old
78
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“maize” is another name for ______

79
Q

the people of Ali Kosh lived in the persian gulf around________

A

7500-5500 BC

80
Q

linear culture existed about ______

A

6000-3800 BC

81
Q

the people of the Tehuacan Valley lived around _____

A

7000-1000BC

82
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who was a “man called Bee”?

A

Napoleon Chagnon

83
Q

The skeleton of Australopithecus Africanus is most similar to the skeleton of ______

A

Homo Habillis

84
Q

The skeleton of Homo Floresiensis is most closely related to the skeleton of _______

A

Homo Erectus

85
Q

Terra Amata is a __________ site in France?

A

Homo Erectus

86
Q

what was found in Gilbrater in 1848?

A

Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis

87
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The earliest known tools are _______

A

Oldowan tools (stone)

  • used by Homo Habilis
  • beginning of lower paleolithic (2.4-2.5 MYA)
88
Q

Homo Erectus credited with?

A
  1. first to control fire (600,000 YA)
  2. 1st to leave Africa
  3. Cannibalism
89
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Culture can override _____

90
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Knowledge is _____

91
Q

one major problem with the rise of cities is____

A

pollution of water, air, and land

92
Q

can domestication lead to increased size of edible parts?

93
Q

Yanamamo housing placement based on? (2 of them)

A
  1. kinship

2. family ties

94
Q

in Australia which bird is known as the good father?

A

the lotus bird

95
Q

Arunta people?

A

aboriginals that see no connection between sex and the creation of a new human
-boys go through “right of passage” where they get circumsized and front teeth knocked out to represent the EMU

96
Q

Dobu people?

A
  • men take of the baby when mother is pregnant by having sex 30-40 times a day
  • week baby is sign of men not fucking wives enough to “feed the baby” during pregnancy
  • women eat one food and do nothing when pregnant
97
Q

Dobu men must _______

A

“be as strong as a lion”, if a dobu man cannot kill the lion his friends kill him for his weakness

  • give lion heart to mom
  • give tanned skin of lion to kid when it grows up
98
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Ashanti people?

A
  • women don’t have sex when pregnant

- if baby is born weak it is fathers fault for having sex with mom when pregnant and stealing babies food

99
Q

Couvade

A

where father ritually gives birth in public as mother gives birth in private

-practiced in spain

100
Q

Athabascan People?

A

men could not touch women during first period of they lose hunting abilities

101
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Apache People?

A

father kills albino deer for daughters first period to make a dress

  • men leave and women throw a big celebration for 10 days
  • shaman come from all over to touch girl since she is in a state of ritual impurity
102
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Do women get circumcized in egypt?

A

yes, if they want to be a woman and get married

103
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how to africa boys get circumcized?

A

stand in front of village , if they scream out they remain boys in eyes of tribe

104
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What group of people use “Bush school” as right of passage?

A

Mano People

105
Q

Maasai people?

A

known for stealing cattle (cattle are bank account)

  • men drink cattle blood
  • women drink cattle milk
  • new adults wear face paint
106
Q

Hadzabe people?

A

lived in Tanzania for 10,000 as hunter/gathers

  • use poison arrows
  • kill daily food in morning
107
Q

Iraqw people?

A

lived in Tanzania for last 1,000 years

-lived underground to avoid Maasai raids

108
Q

Datooga people?

A

lived in Tanzania since 1,500 AD

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