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-blades: long, thin stone tools, Mode 4 -symmetrical, leaf-shaped points -microliths: small stone flake, sharp edge on one side and flat on the other, Mode 5 -atlatl: throws spears farther -bone tools -shelters and hearths

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UCLA ANTHRO 1 FINAL exam with well elaborated answers
When was the major migration out of Africa? - correct answer--60ka

-modern humans replaced the Neanderthals and robust hominids across the world



When did modern humans evolve? - correct answer-200,000 years ago



modern Homo sapien derived characteristics: - correct answer--small, flat face with
portruding chin

-rounded skull

-cranial capacity of at least 1,350cc

-less robust post-cranial skeleton

-relatively long limbs and shorter trunks



why was the modern human less robust? - correct answer--relied more on elaborate tools
and technological advancements, less on body strength



how does modern human behavior compare to that of early hominins? - correct answer--
much more complex and variable

-vast array of specialized tools and techniques to adapt to diverse environments

-elaborate and varied symbolic, artistic, and religious behavior

-due to large geographic range

-ability to accumulate and transmit over successive generations



Middle Stone Age (MSA) - correct answer--The stone tool industries of sub-Saharan Africa
and southern and eastern Asia that existed 250 to 40 kya.

-counterpart of the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) in Europe

-varied, but flake tools were manufactured in all of them

, -large social networks, Llong-distance exchange networks



MSA tools - correct answer--blades: long, thin stone tools, Mode 4

-symmetrical, leaf-shaped points

-microliths: small stone flake, sharp edge on one side and flat on the other, Mode 5

-atlatl: throws spears farther

-bone tools

-shelters and hearths



When did the Middle Stone Age occur? - correct answer-Later Pleistocene



What was change in human behavior caused by? - correct answer--increased cognitive
ability

-cultural innovations, not genetic

-technological innovation



MSA transition - correct answer-technological innovation --> more efficient food
acquisition --> greater economic surplus --> more economic specialization --> greater
symbolic and ritual activity



Fossil Evidence for movement out of Africa - correct answer--earliest found in China, 120-
80ka

-no other anatomical modern fossil outside Africa that date to before 63ka

- beginning 30ka, wealth of evidence for presence of modern humans across Europe



Genetic Evidence for movement out of Africa - correct answer-1) modern humans evolved
in Africa btw 200-90ka

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