ANT 202 ANT202 WEEK 3 QUIZ ANSWERS - ASHFORD
ANT 202 ANT202 WEEK 3 QUIZ ANSWERS - ASHFORD
Ashford ANT 202 Week 3 Quiz Answers
Question 1
The sites of Ksar Akil and Boker Tachtit are significant:
in showing the development of a specialized blade tool technology more than 40,000 years ago
in showing the development of a microblade technology
in the discovery there of the oldest cave paintings
as sites that have produced the skeletons of the earliest anatomically modern human beings
Question 2
What artifact type does the Denali sites of the American Arctic and Dyuktai have in common?
fluted points
bone harpoons
Solutrean points
wedge-shaped cores
Question 3
Detailed analyses of the so-called Venus figurines shows that:
almost all are depictions of obese, probably pregnant young women, implying that the figurines were symbols of fertility
most are, in actuality, depictions of males
they depict a wide range of women, similar to the range of women in a living population
most are of aged women, suggesting that Upper Paleolithic society highly valued women
Question 4
Archaeologist Michael Jochim views the cave art of the Upper Paleolithic as a means of:
ensuring success in the hunt through sympathetic magic
expressing unconscious fears and desires
marking territory
writing a kind of “history” of successful hunts
Question 5
About how old are the Nenana sites of Alaska?
25,000–20,000 years
18,000–14,000 years
14,000–13,000 years
12,000–11,000 years
Question 6
Compared to the Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic people used lithic raw materials that:
were available only within their own region, as opposed to the distant sources used by Middle Paleolithic people
were available often at a great distance from their home territories, implying broader trading networks in the Upper Paleolithic
were located at higher elevations, showing an expansion of human adaptation to locations above the tree line in many regions
Upper Paleolithic people did not use lithic raw materials to any great extent
Question 7
The sharp drop seen in the presence of the Sporomiella fungus in North America about 14,800 years ago is interpreted as meaning this is when:
Native Americans adopted an agricultural mode of subsistence
disease wiped out the earliest settlers of the New World
the late Pleistocene megafauna of North America experienced a massive decline leading to widespread extinction
glacial ice was at a maximum
Question 8
The unique marsupial fauna of Australia is directly attributable to that continent’s:
extremely hot and dry climate
location far south of the equator
isolation
lack of any large predator species
Question 9
The first settlers of Australia likely got there:
across a land bridge connecting southeast Asia and New Guinea
via boat from New Zealand
via boat from southeast Asia
when the islands of Micronesia were part of a vast Pacific continent called Lemuria
Question 10
The more than 1,400 radiocarbon dates examined by Janet Wilmshurst and her colleagues showed that the islands of central and eastern Polynesia, including Hawaii, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Marquesas, and New Zealand were settled:
no earlier than A.D. 1200
no later than A.D. 500
after A.D. 1500
by about 100 B.C.
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