ASB 222 Exam #2 Questions With Correct
Answers
What are the pros and cons of language? - answer- Pros: It has large samples
- Cons: It only consists of modern data and has unknown relationship to genetics
What are the pros and cons of skeletons and fossils? - answer- Pros: Ancient samples
- Co...
What are the pros and cons of language? - answer✔✔- Pros: It has large samples
- Cons: It only consists of modern data and has unknown relationship to genetics
What are the pros and cons of skeletons and fossils? - answer✔✔- Pros: Ancient samples
- Cons: Spotty coverage and unknown relationship to genetics
What are the pros and cons of modern DNA? - answer✔✔- Pros: Large samples
- Cons: Modern data only and is the end result of historical process
What are the pros and cons of ancient DNA? - answer✔✔- Pros: Ancient samples
- Cons: Spotty coverage and complex interpretations
What are the characteristics of homo erectus? - answer✔✔- Dates back to 1.9 million years ago
to 70,000 years ago
- Highly anatomically variable with a thicker skull and larger brow ridges
- First out of Africa
- First one's to look like us
What are the characteristics of homo neanderthalensis? - answer✔✔- Dates back from 250,000 -
40,000
- Restricted range
- Large brain and skulls
- Shorter, thicker, and stockier body type
- Has sophisticated cultural and symbolic behaviors
- Burials
-Contemporaries with homo sapiens for 5,000 years
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- Low population density, inbreeding, and cannibalism
What are the characteristics of homo sapiens? - answer✔✔- Dates back from 150,000 - 200,000
- Evolved from East Africa
- Large brains, smaller faces, thinner bones, rounded skulls, and has chins
What are the characteristics of homo florensiensis? - answer✔✔- Dates back to 700.000 - 50,000
- 18,000
- First discovered in Flores, Indonesia in Liang Bua Cave in 2003
- 3.5 - 4 ft tall, small brains, archaic features
- More primitive stone tools
What are the characteristics of denisovans? - answer✔✔- Dates back to at least 50,000 years ago
- Discovered in central Asia, Altai Mountains in 2010 from 2 teeth and 1 finger bone
- Anciet DNA suggests distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans
- Highly variable populations
- Diverged 1 mya from modern humans
What are the contexts in which we find our ancestors? - answer✔✔- Eaten by carnivores
- Eaten by humans (cannibalism)
Cemetries suggest what? - answer✔✔It suggest sedentism which suggests major changes in
human morbidity and mortality.
Neanderthal burials - answer✔✔Intentional but are not cemetries.
European upper paleolithic burials - answer✔✔- Most simple
- Some very elaborate
- Multiple but are not cemeteries
European Mesolithic - answer✔✔- Vedbaek, Denmark: 22 people 6,000 years ago
- Lepenski, Vir: 60 burials 7,000 years ago
Toforalt, Morrocco - answer✔✔- 14,000 years ago
- Dozens of burials
- Ritual processing
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