Unit 9 : Pre modern Humans quiz

Question 1

Evidence of Premodern Homo sapiens crania that show possible evidence of cannibalism in the form of cut marks is represented at _________

Answer 1

• Bodo

Question 2

The Mousterian stone tool tradition is not always associated with _____________

Answer 2

• Neandertals

Question 3

Kabwe, Bodo, Florisbad, Elandsfontein and Laetoli are sites that evidence premodern Homo sapiens and are located in

Answer 3

• Africa

Question 4

The Middle Pleistocene humans are morphologically __________ and ___________ dispersed throughout time and space

Answer 4

• Diverse and Broadly

Question 5

Supposed grave goods found in Neandertal burials include ______ and _______, along with _________

Answer 5

• Include bone and stone tools , along with animal bones

Question 6

One interpretation of the genetic evidence is that the intermixing of the Neandertal and the modern human lineages occurred between _____________ and _____________ years ago.

Answer 6

• 80,000 and 50,000 years ago

Question 7

The _________ epoch has been called the Ice Age

Answer 7

• Pleistocene

Question 8

Neandertal skeletal remains indicate that they extended their range to the east, far into Central Asia, but as yet no remains have been found in

Answer 8

• China

Question 9

The La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton is not a typical Neandertal because the individual not only had ____________________ but evidences an extreme in the Neandertal range of variation

Answer 9

• arthritis of the spine

Question 10

Recent genetic evidence confirms that some interbreeding took place between Neandertals and Homo sapiens sometime between 80,000 and 50,000. True / False

Answer 10

• True