True Final

Question 1

What species are KNM-ER 1813 and KNM-ER 1470 a part of? Where are they found? What are differences are in their skulls?

Answer 1

Homo habilis

Koobi Fora, Kenya

1470 - larger brain, australopithecine teeth (larger)

1813 - smaller brain, homo teeth (smaller)

Question 2

What indicates the capacity for abstract thought in Homo sapiens?

Answer 2

Fertility figurines, implying that they figured out that some traits could increase likelihood of fertility

Question 3

Who identified Kenyanthropus platyops?

Answer 3

Meavey Leakey

Question 4

Who named Sahelanthropus tchadensis?

Answer 4

Michel Brunet

Question 5

Which two individuals named Australopithecus afarensis?

Answer 5

Donald Johansson and Tim White

Question 6

Who discovered Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus goerhi?

Answer 6

Tim White

Question 7

Who took over in analyzing Dubois’s Java homo erectus material?

Answer 7

G. H. R. von Koenigswald

Question 8

Who was in China and found teeth at a drug store that turned out to be Homo erectus?

Answer 8

Davidson Black

Question 9

Who took over research into homo erectus findings at Zhoukoudian Cave?

Answer 9

Franz Weidenreich

Question 10

Who coined the ape-human ancestor which was later used to name Homo Erectus?

Answer 10

Ernst Haeckel

Question 11

Who did all the archeaology in the discovering Olodwan stone culture?

Answer 11

Mary Leakey along with her husband Louis Leaky who identified Homo habilis and Australopithecus boisei

Question 12

Who said that Neanderthals were a different species?

Answer 12

William King

Question 13

Who discovered Australopithecus robustus?

Answer 13

Robert Broom

Question 14

Who was involved in the discovery of the oldest kitchen where stone tools and cut bone tools were found?

Answer 14

Sileshi Semaw

Question 15

Who worked with La Chappelle-aux Saints Neanderthal remains?

Answer 15

Marcellin Boule

Question 16

Who dealt with origins of bipedality?

Answer 16

Chris Stringer, Carol Ward

Question 17

What were the subspecies among robust australopithecines?

Answer 17

P. aethiopicus, P. boisei, and P. robustus

Question 18

What were robust australopithecine characteristics?

Answer 18

Concave face, saggital crest, occipital crest, huge molars and premolars (flat), small canines and incisors

Question 19

Which robust australopithecine has big front teeth unlike the rest?

Answer 19

Aethiopicus

Question 20

What is the study of what happens to an organism’s remains after death?

Answer 20

Taphonomy

Question 21

Who founded taphonomy?

Answer 21

C.K. Brain

Question 22

Is ardipithecus ramidus bipedal?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

Where is Gona located?

Answer 23

Ethiopia

Question 24

Who founded paleoanthropology?

Answer 24

Clark Howell

Question 25

When were bone tools found?

Answer 25

40k years ago with Homo Sapiens

Question 26

When were wood tools and spears found?

Answer 26

Half a million years ago

Question 27

OH-13, OH-24, OH-62, STW-53 are of what species?

Answer 27

Homo habilis

Question 28

KNM-ER 3733, Narikotome III is of what species?

Answer 28

Homo erectus

Question 29

Bodo, Broken Hill, Ngandong, Dali are of what species?

Answer 29

Advanced homo erectus

Question 30

Where is Tabun cave located?

Answer 30

Israel

Question 31

Where was Amud 1 found?

Answer 31

Israel

Question 32

Where is Shanidar Cave located?

Answer 32

Iraq

Question 33

Where is Kebara located?

Answer 33

Israel

Question 34

What is Maba hominin?

Answer 34

One of the key representatives of archaic Homo sapiens in China

Question 35

What is Herto man?

Answer 35

Homo sapiens idaltu found in Ethiopia

Question 36

Omo remains

Answer 36

Anatomically modern homo sapiens remains in Ethiopia

Question 37

Jebel Irhoud

Answer 37

Morocco, oldest homo sapiens fossils

Question 38

Where is Qafzeh cave located?

Answer 38

Israel; evidence of ritualistic behavior and ornamentation

Question 39

Klasies river mouth cave was located where?

Answer 39

South Africa, revealing complex social behaviors

Question 40

Border Cave was located where?

Answer 40

South Africa

Question 41

What is defleshing?

Answer 41

Removing skin and organs before burial

Question 42

Earliest evidence of defleshing?

Answer 42

Bodo Cranium 300k years ago which had cut marks, Preneanderthal

Question 43

What were the two early homo erectus fossils that were not platycephalic?

Answer 43

KNM-ER 3733 and Nariokotome III

Question 44

First platycephalic homo erectus fossil?

Answer 44

OH-9

Question 45

What's special about St. Cesaire Neanderthal?

Answer 45

Interpersonal violence occurred using Chatelperronian tools suggesting cultural exchange with late Neanderthals and modern humans

Question 46

What was the fake species called that was considered first evidence for an early British ancestor?

Answer 46

Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni)

Question 47

Who was the first scientist to name the first human ancestor from Africa - Australopithecus africanus?

Answer 47

Raymond Dart

Question 48

How did the climate change with the rise of Miocene?

Answer 48

More dry and seasonally variable temperatures became the norm

Question 49

How did homo differ based on the evidence?

Answer 49

Palate was shorter, lacked facial pillars, and reduced teeth size

Question 50

Who were first stone tools associated with?

Answer 50

Australopopithecus Boisei and Homo Habilis

Question 51

How many interglacial periods?

Answer 51

17

Question 52

Today, how is it possible to get direct knowledge of what a stone tool was used for?

Answer 52

By doing wear studies

Question 53

Earliest evidence of fire use comes from?

Answer 53

Israel

Question 54

What is the boundary between the Acheulean and Oldowans called?

Answer 54

Movius line

Question 55

What species was found in the Gran Dolina complex?

Answer 55

Homo antecessor who had some evidence of a chin and lack of a simian shelf

Question 56

Who claimed La Chapelle-aux-saints Neanderthals were pathological humans?

Answer 56

Rudolf Virchow

Question 57

When do bone tools begin to be used more?

Answer 57

Chatelperronian period