Chapter 8- Understanding the past- Archaeological and Paleoanthropological methods Questions and Answers
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Chapter 8- Understanding the past- Archaeological and Paleoanthropological methods Questions and Answers
The term 'hominin' refers to:
a. all great apes
b. modern humans and now extinct bipedal relatives
c. all bipedal apes
d. only modern humans
e. only extinct bipedal relatives
modern human...
Chapter 8- Understanding the past-
Archaeological and
Paleoanthropological methods
Questions and Answers
The term 'hominin' refers to:
a. all great apes
b. modern humans and now extinct bipedal relatives
c. all bipedal apes
d. only modern humans
e. only extinct bipedal relatives - answer modern humans and now extinct bipedal
relatives
Culture is defined by which of the following characteristics?
a. economic activities
b. symbolic communication
c. social organization
d. material culture
e. cognitive, political, social, economic and technological components - answer
cognitive, political, social, economic and technological components
The interaction of both physical and cultural aspects of hominin behavior is known as
a biocultural evolution
b. mosaic evolution
c. bio-cognition
d. taphonomy
e. paleoecology - answer biocultural evolution
Protohominis lived approximately
a. 200,000 years ago
b. 1 - 2.5 mya
c. 2.5 - 5 mya
d. 5 - 7 mya
e. over 10 mya - answer 2.5 - 5 mya
The overall study of fossil hominins is known as:
a. physical anthropology
b. ethnography
c. paleoanthropology
d. archaeology
, e. ethology - answer paleoanthropology
Which of the following statements about tool use by the earliest protohominins is
correct?
a. Stone tools were regularly manufactured.
b. They formed a central part of trade strategies.
c. They likely used tools in a manner similar to modern chimpanzees and bonobos.
d. They are identified as tools by archaeologists.
e. They were stones that were sharpened. - answer they likely used tools in a
manner similar to modern chimpanzees and bonobos
Why are stone tools important for reconstructing the human past?
a. They are the aspect of culture most often preserved.
b. They represent the most important part of culture.
c. They define the home range.
d. Tool use is a unique to hominins.
e. They are always manufactured. - answer they are the aspect of culture most often
preserved
Which of the following types of evidence of hominin behavior are most likely available
for study?
a. cognitive aspects
b. economic components
c. political aspects
d. material culture
e. social structure - answer material culture
The earliest artifact sites are from the Gona and Bouri areas, dating to
a. 7 mya
b. 2.6 mya
c. 500,000 years ago
d. 1.5 mya
e. 5 mya - answer 2.6 mya
Taphonomy is defined as:
a. the precise temporal and spatial relationship between artifacts and features
b. the study of hominin locomotion
c. the study of how bones and other materials become buried and preserved as part of
the archaeological record
d. the study of past environment
e. establishing chronological relationships within a site - answer the study of how
bones and other materials become buried and preserved as part of the archaeological
record
Which of the following would NOT be helpful in reconstruction the local paleoecological
setting in which early hominins lived?
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