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