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Upper Paleolithic industries in Europe include large numbers of |
| | A) | hand axes |
| | B) | choppers and flakes |
| | C) | Levallois flakes |
| | D) | blades struck from specially prepared blade cores |
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The Cro-Magnon skeletons, which were discovered in 1868, |
| | A) | are early skeletons from Europe |
| | B) | are early modern skeletons from the Middle East |
| | C) | are early modern skeletons from Africa |
| | D) | are typical late Neanderthals |
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The multiregional hypothesis |
| | A) | suggests that modern humans evolved from archaic populations in Africa, Asia, and Europe |
| | B) | suggests that the Neanderthals are not ancestral to anatomically modern humans |
| | C) | suggests that early modern humans evolved in Africa and then moved into other parts of the world |
| | D) | suggests that Homo erectus is not ancestral to anatomically modern humans |
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The mitochondrial DNA evidence suggests that |
| | A) | Neanderthals were directly ancestral to modern humans |
| | B) | all modern humans are descended from an ancestral African population |
| | C) | the Neanderthals were a very diverse population |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Mitochondrial DNA |
| | A) | is another name for nuclear DNA |
| | B) | can be inherited from either the mother or the father |
| | C) | can be used to construct family trees for humans and other species |
| | D) | provides strong support for the multiregional hypothesis |
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The mtDNA from the Maismezskaya Neanderthal |
| | A) | is similar to the mtDNA recovered from the Cro-Magnon skeletons |
| | B) | is similar to the mtDNA from modern human populations |
| | C) | is very similar to the mtDNA recovered from the Feldhofer Cave Neanderthal |
| | D) | suggests that Neanderthals were ancestral to modern humans |
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The hominin fossils from Herto Bouri |
| | A) | appear to be ancestral to modern humans |
| | B) | date to about 160,000 years ago |
| | C) | were associated with an industry that is transition between the Acheulian and the Middle Stone Age |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Which is the following is not considered a transitional fossil between archaic and modern humans? |
| | A) | Omo 2 |
| | B) | Cro-Magnon |
| | C) | Jebel Irhoud |
| | D) | Ngaloba |
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The Howieson's Poort industry from southern Africa is |
| | A) | the earliest known microlithic industry |
| | B) | clearly associated with transitional fossils such as Omo 2 |
| | C) | also found at the Herto Bouri site |
| | D) | all of the above |
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The Middle Stone Age sites from Katanda in the Congo (formerly Zaire) have produced |
| | A) | large numbers of microliths |
| | B) | finely worked bone points |
| | C) | skeletal evidence for early modern humans |
| | D) | no evidence for fishing |
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The Middle Stone Age assemblages from sub-Saharan Africa |
| | A) | have yielded evidence for worked bone tools that are much older than the Upper Paleolithic worked bone assemblages from Europe |
| | B) | must have been made by Neanderthals |
| | C) | have shown that the Middle Stone Age industry is very similar to the European Mousterian |
| | D) | all of the above |
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The excavations at Qafzeh in the Southern Levant demonstrated that |
| | A) | the Qafzeh hominins made Upper Paleolithic tools |
| | B) | the Qafzeh hominins are early Neanderthals |
| | C) | early modern humans inhabited the Near East about 100,000 years ago |
| | D) | 100,000 year old cave sites can be dated by the radiocarbon technique |
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Which of the following conclusions should NOT be drawn from the comparison of the Qafzeh and Kebara sites? |
| | A) | The Neanderthals evolved into anatomically modern humans in the Middle East |
| | B) | Neanderthals and modern humans made similar tools |
| | C) | Neanderthals inhabited the Levant about 40,000 years after early modern humans inhabited Kebara |
| | D) | There is no one-to-one correlation between fossil human forms and stone industries |
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Detailed archaeological studies by Lieberman and Shea have identified subtle behavioral differences between Neanderthals and early modern humans in the Middle East. These archaeological studies |
| | A) | suggest that modern humans hunted more often than the Neanderthals did |
| | B) | suggest that the Neanderthals were scavengers while modern humans were hunters |
| | C) | indicate that the Neanderthals were highly mobile hunter-gatherers while modern humans were more sedentary |
| | D) | suggest that modern humans were more mobile than the Neanderthals |
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Which of the following reflects Richard Klein's view of the origin of modern human behavior? |
| | A) | Modern human behavior developed in Africa 200,000 years ago |
| | B) | The humans from Qafzeh were behaviorally modern |
| | C) | Modern human behavior resulted from a mutation that led to the development of the fully modern brain |
| | D) | All of the above |
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McBrearty and Brooks have proposed an alternative to Klein's view of modern human origins. McBrearty and Brooks suggest |
| | A) | that modern human behavior developed in Europe about 30,000 years ago |
| | B) | that modern human behavior developed in the Middle East at sites like Qafzeh |
| | C) | that modern humans developed in Africa along with the evolution of modern humans |
| | D) | none of the above |
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The Lapedo child |
| | A) | has been dated to about 24.500 years ago |
| | B) | is a modern human but may share some characteristics with the Neanderthals |
| | C) | has been viewed as a hybrid by some biological anthropologists |
| | D) | all of the above |
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The St. Césaire Neanderthal was associated with |
| | A) | a Chételperronian industry |
| | B) | a microlithic industry |
| | C) | an Acheulian industry |
| | D) | a Levalloiso-Mousterian industry |
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In Europe, modern humans appear to have replaced the Neanderthals |
| | A) | about 100,000 years ago |
| | B) | about 15,000 years ago |
| | C) | about 30,000 years ago |
| | D) | about 70,000 years ago |
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Which of the following behaviors are shared by Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans |
| | A) | the widespread manufacture of bone implements |
| | B) | the manufacture of the Chételperronian industry |
| | C) | hunting |
| | D) | all of the above |
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