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Final ANT 280
True - ✔✔It is likely that modern Homo sapiens interbred with the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.
True - ✔✔Neanderthals took care of their injured and sick as well as deliberately buried their dead.
ancient DNA analysis - ✔✔Advances in ____ have added to evidence that suggests a more complex
connection between modern Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals
True - ✔✔Archaic Homo sapiens are technically considered the same species as humans today.
False - ✔✔Neanderthals were geographically diverse, living all over the Old World, including in
Africa and East Asia.
Magdalenian - ✔✔The Later Stone Age and the Pleistocene Period end with the ____ tradition,
noted for fine bone tool work including barbed spearheads and fishhooks
The study of oxygen isotopes preserved in the shells of marine invertebrates - ✔✔Which of the
following is a line of evidence that has helped inform our understanding of the climate of the
%
Pleistocene?
True - ✔✔While more intelligent than their previous relatives, Neanderthals may not have been
nearly as intelligent modern humans
reduction in face size - ✔✔One skull trend across hominin evolution that reaches an extreme with
modern Homo sapiens is
Atlatl - ✔✔Which of the following is a hunting technology developed during the Upper Paleolithic?
False - ✔✔Prehistoric Native Americans were comprised of many groups of Homo, including
Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo floresiensis
cultural complexity - ✔✔As compared to the Neanderthals, Middle Stone Age fossil humans found in
Africa reflect more
True - ✔✔The Denisovans share up to 5% of their DNA with modern Melanesians, aboriginal
Australians, and Polynesians.
relatively primitive features - ✔✔One of the most remarkable aspects of Homo naledi is the species'
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prehistoric Native Americans crossed Beringia - ✔✔The "Ice-Free Corridor" and "Coastal Route" are
two competing models that explain how
False - ✔✔There was most likely one momentous event in which people migrated from Africa into
the Middle East.
the remains for four adults and one infant found in a rock shelter in France dating to 28,000 years ago
- ✔✔The term "Cro-Magnon" most accurately refers to
do not exhibit defining modern Homo sapiens features - ✔✔In terms of skeletal features, Middle
Stone Age fossil humans found in Africa
prehistoric land masses traversed by modern human Asians due to lowered sea levels - ✔✔Sunda
and Sahul were
True - ✔✔It is generally agreed upon that Archaic Homo sapiens lived between 600,000 and
200,000 years ago.
long-distance running - ✔✔The postcranial slenderness seen in modern Homo sapiens is a probable
%
adaptation for
bone and teeth - ✔✔In the case of ancient hominins, aDNA is often collected from
ochre - ✔✔The mineral-based pigment called ____, was used by early modern Homo sapiens to
color many artifacts and features
False - ✔✔Archaic Homo sapiens appear in the fossil record during the Pleistocene epoch, an epoch
marked by great climatic stability
Homo heidelbergensis - ✔✔Which of the following species is often lumped under the heading of
Archaic Homo sapiens?
african multiregionalism - ✔✔The high level of diversity in the fossils found at the sites of Jebel
Irhoud, Omo, and Herto in Africa support
True - ✔✔Since we cannot directly observe humans of the distant past, it is hard to define and
measure cultural complexity
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