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