ASB 222 Exam #2 Questions with Correct Answers

ASB 222 Exam #2 Questions with Correct Answers


Question 1:
What are the pros and cons of modern DNA?
Answer:
Pros: Large samples



Question 2:
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



Question 3:
Cons: Spotty coverage and complex interpretations What are the characteristics of homo
erectus? years ago
Highly anatomically variable with a thicker skull and larger brow ridges
First out of Africa
Answer:
Dates back to 1.9 million years ago to 70,000



Question 4:
First one's to look like us What are the characteristics of homo neanderthalensis?
Restricted range
Large brain and skulls
Answer:
- Dates back from 250,000 - 40,000



Question 5:
Low population density, inbreeding, and cannibalism What are the characteristics of homo
neanderthalensis?
Restricted range
Large brain and skulls
Answer:
- Dates back from 250,000 - 40,000

,Question 6:
Low population density, inbreeding, and cannibalism Shorter, thicker, and stockier body
typeHas sophisticated cultural and symbolic behaviorsBurials-Contemporaries with homo
sapiens for 5,000 yearsShorter, thicker, and stockier body typeHas sophisticated cultural and
symbolic behaviorsBurials-Contemporaries with homo sapiens for 5,000 years Shorter, thicker,
and stockier body type Has sophisticated cultural and symbolic behaviors Burials
-Contemporaries with homo sapiens for 5,000 years Shorter, thicker, and stockier body type
Has sophisticated cultural and symbolic behaviors Burials -Contemporaries with homo sapiens
for 5,000 years What are the characteristics of homo sapiens?
Evolved from East Africa
Answer:
- Dates back from 150,000 - 200,000



Question 7:
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



Question 8:
- 3.5
Answer:
4 ft tall, small brains, archaic features



Question 9:
- More primitive stone tools What are the characteristics of denisovans?
Anciet DNA suggests distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans
Highly variable populations
Answer:
Dates back to at least 50,000 years ago



Question 10:
Discovered in central Asia, Altai Mountains in 2010 from 2 teeth and 1 finger bone Diverged 1
mya from modern humans What are the contexts in which we find our ancestors?
Answer:

, Eaten by carnivores



Question 11:
Eaten by humans (cannibalism) Cemetries suggest what?
Answer:
It suggest sedentism which suggests major changes in human morbidity and mortality.



Question 12:
Neanderthal burials
Answer:
Intentional but are not cemetries.



Question 13:
European upper paleolithic burials
Some very elaborate
Answer:
Most simple



Question 14:
Multiple but are not cemeteries European Mesolithic
Answer:
Vedbaek, Denmark: 22 people 6,000 years ago



Question 15:
Lepenski, Vir: 60 burials 7,000 years ago Toforalt, Morrocco
Dozens of burials
Answer:
14,000 years ago
Ritual processing



Question 16:
Jebel Sahaba, Nile Valley
-Approx. 60 burials