WKU Anth 335 Test 1 Review Answers

1. Which of the following statements about the dates for the earliest evidence of stone tool technologies is true?

A.    The oldest Mousterian stone tools are 200,000 years old.
B.    The oldest blade tools are 28,000 years old.
C.    The oldest Levallois stone tools are 100,000 years old.
D.    The oldest Acheulian stone tools are 1.7 million years old.
E.    None of these are true.

2. Which types of ritual activity are first evidenced at sites from the Middle Paleolithic period?

A.    shamanism
B.    sympathetic magic
C.    ritualistic defleshing
D.    intentional burial of the dead
E.    Both C and D are correct.

A.    cave, parietal, portable
B.    petroglyph, pictograph, portograph
C.    mobile, portable, open-air
D.    cave, portable, open-air
E.    cave, petroglyph, pictograph

A.    archaeology.
B.    linguistics.
C.    evolutionary anthropology.
D.    cultural anthropology.
E.    biological anthropology.

5.    True or False: Prehistoric archaeology is concerned with the time period of the past prior to the development or adoption of writing, while historic archaeology is concerned with the time period of the past after the development or adoption of writing. The date for the division between these two time periods varies around the world.

6.    True or False: The two primary settlement strategies of humans are villages and cities mobile and sedentary, and the two primary subsistence strategies of humans are food collection and food production.

7.    True or False: The Lower Paleolithic Period is dated from 2.6 million to 200,000 years ago; the Middle Paleolithic Period is dated from 200,000 to 100,000 70,000 years ago; the Upper Paleolithic Period is dated from 100,000 70,000 to 35,000 12,000 years ago; the Mesolithic Period is dated from 35,000 12,000 to 14,000 10,000 years ago; and the Neolithic Period is dated from 12,000 14,000 12,000 to ? years ago.

8. True or False: The oldest artifactual evidence of meat use by humans is animal bones with stone tool cut marks dated to about 1.7 2.6 million years ago from the site of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Aramis and Gona, Ethiopia.