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Chapter 11: Past Humans Quiz
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1.
Fully modern people living during the Pleistocene were
hunter-gatherers
farmers
horticulturalists
pastoralists
2.
Europe has an abundance of archaeological finds from the Pleistocene because
Europe has the oldest evidence of art
cave and rockshelters were good places for preservation of remains
the earliest humans evolved in Europe
farming first began in Europe
3.
Innovations of modern humans in the Upper Paleolithic include
needles
the atlatl
bone flutes
all are correct
4.
Art that ressembles something in the physical world is called
parietal art
atlatl
representational art
pleistocene
5.
Both Lascaux and Altamira
are early farming sites
are woolly mammoth kill sites
are famous archaeologists
were closed to the public because of growth of mold caused by tourism
6.
Venus figurines or woman figures emphasize
music
the face, many are portraits
clothing
the body
7.
Burials at Sungir in Russia are
much like Neanderthal burials
very elaborate
very simple
are mummified
8.
the first domesticated animal was
the dog
the cow
the cat
the horse
9.
An experiment that bred friendly foxes until they changed in physical appears is called
the silver fox experiment
FOXP2 experiment
Foxy Loxy Experiment
The red fox experiment
10.
Pat Shipman thinks
Pleistocene people were farmers
dogs helped humans outcompete archaic humans
Venus figurines are portraits
Folsom came before Clovis
11.
Geroge McJunkin found
Lascaux
the Clovis site
Altamira
the Folsom site
12.
The Folsom site demonstrated that
dogs are neotonous wolves
dogs were domesticated during the ice ages
people worshiped Venus figurines
people were in the Americas during the Pleistocene
13.
Two mains hypotheses about the extinction of the megafauna are
flood then fire
climate and overkill by humans
meteors and aliens
meteors and volcanoes
Chapter 10: Portals to the Past
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