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UCLA ANTHRO 1 FINAL EXAM
WITH 100% CORRECT AN SWERS
Question : When was the major migration out of
Africa?-60ka -modern humans replaced the Neanderthals and robust hominids across the world
Correct answer: -60ka
-modern humans replaced the Neanderthals and robust hominids across the world
Question : When did modern humans evolve?
Correct answer: 200,000 years ago
Question : modern Homo sapien derived
characteristics:
Correct answer: -small, flat face with portruding
chin
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-rounded skull -cranial capacity of at least 1,350cc -less robust post-cranial skeleton -relatively long limbs and shorter trunks
Question : why was the modern human less robust?
Correct answer: -relied more on elaborate tools and
technological advancements, less on body strength
Question : 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
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-ability to accumulate and transmit over successive generations
Question : 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
Question : MSA tools
Correct answer: -blades: long, thin stone tools, Mode 4 -symmetrical, leaf-shaped points
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-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
Question : When did the Middle Stone Age occur?
Correct answer: Later Pleistocene
Question : What was change in human behavior
caused by?
Correct answer: -increased cognitive ability
-cultural innovations, not genetic -technological innovation
Question : MSA transition
Correct answer: technological innovation --> more
efficient food acquisition --> greater economic