Anth 375 Paleoanthropology: Human Origins and Evolution
Dr. Darlene Applegate
Spring 2004
Answers to Objective Review Questions for Exam 3 (Final Exam)


1.    What is significant about the site of Drachenlock, Germany?

A.    The oldest wooden spears associated with Homo neandertalensis were found there.
B.    Evidence of a cave bear cult associated with Homo neandertalensis was found there.
C.    It yielded the type specimen for Homo neandertalensis.
D.    William King’s initial description of Homo neandertalensis was based on skeletal remains from the site.
E.    Blade tools associated with Homo neandertalensis were recovered there.

2.    Which of the following explanations for the decline/extinction of the neandertals assumes they were a subspecies of anatomically modern humans?

A.    demographics
B.    disease
C.    war
D.    outcompetition
E.    interbreeding

3.    What do the sites of Bodo and Krapina have in common?

A.    They are sites where humans were intentionally buried.
B.    They are the sites where the oldest fossil evidence of a particular human species was recovered.
C.    They yielded evidence of defleshing.
D.    They yielded evidence of possible art and personal ornamentation.
E.    They are sites where the type specimens of two species were recovered.

4.    What famous site has yielded the skeletal remains of at least 40 individuals, over 100,000 stone tools and animal bones, and evidence of the controlled use of fire?

A.    Zhoukoudian, China
B.    Boxgrove, England
C.    Terra Amata, France
D.    Cro-Magnon, France
E.    Divje Babe I, Slovenia

5.    Which species is associated with blade tools, pottery, ground-stone tools, and religion?

A.    Homo erectus
B.    Homo heidelbergensis
C.    Homo antecessor
D.    Homo neandertalensis
E.    Homo sapiens

6.    True or False:  The oldest musical instrument was recovered from the neandertal site of Divje Babe I, Slovenia.  

7.    True or False:  Stone tools used by neandertals include Mousterian, Levallois, blades Chatelperronian, and Aterian types.

8.    True or False:  The only human species known to have buried the dead are Homo neandertalensis and Homo sapiens.

9.    True or False:   The type specimen for Homo sapiens is E687 from Kabwe, Zambia CM1 from Cro-Magnon, France.

10.   True or False:  Levallois and Mousterian stone tools are prepared core tool technologies that produced uniform flake tools.

11.    Recent fossil discoveries of Homo sapiens at Herto, Ethiopia were made by Tim White  .

12.   The time range for Homo antecessor is  800,000 to 200,000  .

13.   The type specimen for Homo erectus is  Trinil 2  .

14.    The easternmost fossils of neandertals were recovered from the site  Teshik-Tash  .

15.   The oldest human skeletal evidence from Australia is from the site  Lake Mungo  .

 

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