ANT 2000 Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Correct
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ANT 2000 Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Correct
The oldowan tool is primarily associated with what group of early human ancestors? - Answer- homo habilis
The miocene epoch is generally known as the "age of the ______" - Answer- apes
the evolution of bipedalism among early hominids involv...
ANT 2000 Exam 1 Questions and
Answers 100% Correct
The oldowan tool is primarily associated with what group of early human ancestors? -
Answer- homo habilis
The miocene epoch is generally known as the "age of the ______" - Answer- apes
the evolution of bipedalism among early hominids involved all of the following except: -
Answer- shortened legs
The oldest member of the genus Homo is the East African species known as - Answer-
Homo habilis
the 1970s discovery of a 40-percent complete australopithecine provided definitive
evidence for bipedalism and modern human-brain-sized brains - Answer- False
Homo Erectus fossils in Asia have been found associated with stone tools belonging to
the Acheulean tradition - Answer- false
the major hominin group that existed from about 4 to 1.2 ova was - Answer-
Australopithecus/ paranthropu
One of the adaptive advantages of bipedalism, in comparison to quadrepedalism is that
it allowed early hominins to run faster - Answer- false
North America was first colonized sometime after 20,000 years ago by fully modern
humans - Answer- True
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement - Answer- the switch from food
foraging to food production allowed people to work less in subsistence pursuits
What is the name of the hunter-gatherer people whose discovery in the Philippines
during the 1970s led to claims of an utterly isolated and pristine stone-age culture? -
Answer- the Tasaday
Plant domestication occurred in North America by 10,000 years ago and included
important cereal grains such as wheat, barley and oats - Answer- False
The idea of a broad-scale, uniform Neolithic Revolution was first proposed by V. Gordon
Childe and is still supported by current archaeological data - Answer- False
, Implications of the transition from hunting and gathering to food production include all of
the following except: - Answer- decreased social complexity
Domestication: - Answer- increases productivity and increases instability
Where is the Fertile Crescent - Answer- Southwest Asia
Archaeological evidence for plant domestication includes all of the following except -
Answer- increased seed coat thickness
Natufian foragers unintentionally selected for which trait of wild forms of wheat and
barley - Answer- tough axes (or rachis)
Leadership in band societies is usually ascribed and permanent - Answer- False
The perspective that hunter-gatherer life was quite comfortable is referred to as the -
Answer- "original affluent society"
What did Jordan Diamond call the "worst mistake in the history of the human race?" -
Answer- food production
Culture is considered to be all of the following except: - Answer- static
archeologists sometimes study living peoples as a source of inference for
understanding past human behavior, what is the name of this method? - Answer-
ethnoarchaeology
All if the following are approaches that linguistic anthropologists may take except: -
Answer- analyzing which languages are superior
All humans have culture - Answer- true
All cultures are: - Answer- dynamic
archaeology is the study of - Answer- human material products
symbol-based learned behavior is one definition of - Answer- culture
which of the following best serves the anthropologist in his/her study of another culture?
- Answer- cultural relativism
linguistic anthropologists are interested in the ways language is used in the present as
well as in the past - Answer- true
which of the following characteristics uniquely defines the anthropological approach? -
Answer- a holistic perspective
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