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During the Late Pleistocene, Greater Australia included |
| | A) | the Australian mainland |
| | B) | New Guinea |
| | C) | Tasmania |
| | D) | all of the above |
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About 40,000 years ago, Greater Australia was connected to Southeast Asia by |
| | A) | a land bridge |
| | B) | a series of chains of islands |
| | C) | an open-water voyage of more than 1000 km |
| | D) | all of the above |
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The term Sahul is another name for |
| | A) | Greater Australia |
| | B) | Southeast Asia |
| | C) | Indonesia |
| | D) | South Asia |
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During the late Pleistocene, |
| | A) | sea levels were lower than they are today because of eustatic sea level changes |
| | B) | sea levels were higher than they are today because of eustatic sea level changes |
| | C) | sea levels were more than 200 meters lower than they are today |
| | D) | sea levels were lower than they are today due to isostatic sea levels changes |
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Which of the following is not true about the initial human settlement of Australia? |
| | A) | Sites such as Kuk, Lake Mugo, and Upper Swan suggest that Australia may have been settled about 40,000 years ago |
| | B) | Early humans must have used some form of watercraft, such as boats or rafts, to reach Australia |
| | C) | Australia was initially settled by Homo erectus |
| | D) | Early sites have been discovered in many different regions of Greater Australia |
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The settlement of the island of New Ireland by 32,000 years ago indicates that |
| | A) | early settlers much have used watercraft to reach New Ireland via New Britain from Greater Australia |
| | B) | early Australians used an Upper Paleolithic technology similar to the stone industries known from Europe and the Near East |
| | C) | early Australian were primarily big game hunters |
| | D) | a land bridge existed between Australia and New Britain in the late Pleistocene |
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Tasmania was separated from the Australian mainland |
| | A) | about 40,000 years ago |
| | B) | about 20,000 years ago during the coldest part of the late Pleistocene |
| | C) | about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago |
| | D) | about 5000 years ago |
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Eustatic sea level changes at the end of the Ice Age led to the separation of |
| | A) | Alaska from Siberia |
| | B) | Great Britain from the European Continent |
| | C) | Australia from New Guinea |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Isostatic sea level changes |
| | A) | played a major role in Tasmanian prehistory |
| | B) | continue to affect Scandinavia, nearly 8000 years after the final melting of the Scandinavian ice sheet |
| | C) | played a major role in the sea level changes seen in late glacial Australia |
| | D) | are rising sea levels caused glacial melting |
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The stone tool industry known from Lake Mungo is known as |
| | A) | the Upper Paleolithic |
| | B) | the Australian Small Tool Tradition |
| | C) | the Australian Core Tool and Scraper Tradition |
| | D) | the Kebaran Industry |
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Which of the following was not found at Lake Mungo? |
| | A) | a human burial |
| | B) | a human cremation |
| | C) | hearths |
| | D) | house foundations |
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The archaeological data from Lake Mungo indicate that the early Australians at the site |
| | A) | relied primarily on large mammals such as kangoroos |
| | B) | collected marine shellfish |
| | C) | relied primarily on plant foods |
| | D) | hunted mammals, fished, and collected freshwater shellfish |
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The discovery of the Lake Mungo in 1968 was a milestone in Australian prehistory because |
| | A) | the initial excavations showed that humans had been present in Australia for more than 20,000 years |
| | B) | the excavations showed that the Australians sometimes cremated their dead |
| | C) | 16 hearths were discovered there |
| | D) | stone tools were discovered at Lake Mungo |
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Excavations at Puritjarrn rock shelter near Alice Springs showed that |
| | A) | the interior of Australia was never settled during the Pleistocene |
| | B) | the interior of the Australian continent was settled before the rest of the Australian continent |
| | C) | parts of the Australian interior were settled by 22,000 years ago |
| | D) | the climate of Pleistocene Australia was exactly the same as the climate of today |
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The Australian Small Tool Tradition |
| | A) | appeared in Australia about 5000 B.P. |
| | B) | included small stone points and microlithic tools |
| | C) | never spread to Tasmania |
| | D) | all of the above |
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A unique feature of Tasmanian prehistory is |
| | A) | the disappearance of bone tools and fishing technology about 3500 B.P. |
| | B) | the appearance of the dingo around 4000 B.P. |
| | C) | evidence for farming beginning about 5000 B.P. |
| | D) | the appearance of drainage ditches and fishtraps about 4000 B.P. |
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Which of the following has not been suggested as an explanation for the Tasmanian's abandonment of fishing about 3500 B.P. |
| | A) | Climatic changes led to a shift toward fattier foods such as sea mammals |
| | B) | The cooler, drier conditions opened up new opportunities for terrestrial hunting |
| | C) | European colonization of Tasmania |
| | D) | "devolution" resulting from the loos of contact with the wider social networks of the Australian continent |
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