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In the late 19th century, Eugene Dubois conducted excavations at the site of |
| | A) | Sangiran |
| | B) | Trinil |
| | C) | Mojokerto |
| | D) | Dmanisi |
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Dubois, a Dutch physician interested in human evolution, was looking for |
| | A) | the "missing link" |
| | B) | Homo habilis |
| | C) | fossil gibbons |
| | D) | Homo rudolfensis |
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Excavations at Sangiran have shown that |
| | A) | early humans must have settled Indonesia by boats |
| | B) | Homo erectus had settled in Southeast Asia by 1.66 Ma |
| | C) | handaxes are common in Southeast Asia |
| | D) | humans hunted with stone spearpoints during the early Plesistocene |
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The Movius Line |
| | A) | separates handaxe and non-handaxe industries |
| | B) | separates Mode I from Acheulian industries |
| | C) | was originally drawn by Hallam Movius in the 1940s |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Which of the following is not an explanation for the absence of hand axes in East Asia? |
| | A) | East Asia may have lacked suitable raw materials |
| | B) | Other raw materials, such as bamboo, may have been used in East Asia |
| | C) | Handaxe technology was too complex for East Asian Homo erectus to learn |
| | D) | Handaxe technology may have been lost due to the lack of a spoken language |
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Place the following sites in chronological order: |
| | A) | Dmanisi, Ubeidiya, Sangiran, Zhoukoudian |
| | B) | Sangiran, Dmanisi, Ubeidiya, Zhoukoudian |
| | C) | Dmanisi, Sangiran, Zhoukoudian, Ubeidiya |
| | D) | Dmanisi, Sangiran, Ubeidiya, Zhoukoudian |
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Zhoukoudian is an important site because |
| | A) | it produced many handaxes |
| | B) | it has produced fossils of Homo erectus and a Mode I industry |
| | C) | the original Homo erectus fossils from Zhoukoudian are displayed in the British Museum |
| | D) | Zhoukoudian was occupied from 1.66 to 1.0 Ma |
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Excavations at Zhoukoudian have yielded |
| | A) | many deer bones |
| | B) | clear evidence for hearths |
| | C) | fossils of Homo habilis |
| | D) | charred tubers |
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The earliest well-documented archaeological sites in western Europe |
| | A) | are clearly older than Dmanisi |
| | B) | produced handaxes |
| | C) | have produced no fossil hominins |
| | D) | are Gran Dolina and possibly Isernia la Pineta |
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Gran Dolina has been dated using |
| | A) | radiocarbon dating |
| | B) | potassium-argon dating |
| | C) | electron spin resonance |
| | D) | argon-argon dating |
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The term Clactonian is used to describe |
| | A) | assemblages with large numbers of handaxes |
| | B) | sites in western Europe that generally lack handaxes |
| | C) | handaxes that are made using a soft hammer |
| | D) | East Asia assemblages that lack hand axes |
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Sima de los Huesos at Atapuerca appears to have served as a |
| | A) | stone tool workshop |
| | B) | a hunting site |
| | C) | a site where early humans deposited corpses |
| | D) | a stone cache |
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The Levallois technique |
| | A) | appears as an early part of the Acheulian |
| | B) | is a technique design to produce flakes of a predetermined shape and size |
| | C) | is common in the Mode I industry |
| | D) | appears primarily in East Asia |
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The Torralba and Ambrona sites |
| | A) | were occupied about 450,000 years ago |
| | B) | provide evidence for elephant butchery |
| | C) | produced Acheulian tools |
| | D) | all of the above |
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The excavations at Aridos in Spain |
| | A) | included an assemblage of tools that appear to have been used to butcher elephants |
| | B) | provided clear evidence that early humans used torches to drive elephants into the swamps |
| | C) | revealed a quarry site used to obtain stone for toolmaking |
| | D) | provides unequivocal evidence for hunting |
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Terra Amata |
| | A) | is a rare late Acheulian open-air site |
| | B) | is a deeply stratified cave site |
| | C) | is an elephant butchery site |
| | D) | was dated by radiocarbon |
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The interpretation of the Terra Amata huts as a series of brief, seasonal encampments has been challenged because |
| | A) | Lewis Binford re-excavated the site |
| | B) | stone tools from different hut floors could be refitted |
| | C) | the site could not be dated by the potassium-argon method |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Which of the following statements is true about the initial movement of early humans out of Africa (Out of Africa 1)? |
| | A) | the earliest sites outside Africa are found in Europe |
| | B) | the initial settlement of Europe may have been limited to the warm, interglacial periods |
| | C) | the earliest Asia sites are in China |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Both TL and ESR |
| | A) | can be used to date materials that are too old for radiocarbon and too young for potassium-argon dating |
| | B) | can be used to date materials such as burned flint |
| | C) | are based on measuring the energy trapped in mineral crystals |
| | D) | all of the above |
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By about 200,000 years ago |
| | A) | humans had occupied North and South America |
| | B) | humans had settled the Arctic regions of Eurasia |
| | C) | humans had occupied the tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia |
| | D) | all of the above |
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