ASB 222 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
2nd human diaspora (Not out of Africa) 45,000 years ago BP humans crossed the
Sunda Stright to Sahul correct answer 12,000 years ago humans crossed Beringia
to N and S America
Absolute dating correct answer Provides an age in calendar years
Acheulean correct answer Technology named after the town of St. Aheul in
Franch based on hand axes, clevers, and flake artifacts that flourished in Africa,
Europe, asia, between 1.8 million and 200,000 years ago
Analogy correct answer A comparison of ancient artifacts to modern objects
Things that are similar in known way are probably similar in other ways
Archaeology The study of past human societies through their material remains
correct answer
Artifacts correct answer Anything used, made or modified by humans
Atapuerca correct answer Cave system that yielded fossils of 400,000 year-old
homo heidelbergensis
Band correct answer Hunters and Gatherers
Battleship curve correct answer Shows the emergence and disappearance of
something in a 2-D graph over time
, Beringia correct answer A massive landbridge in Asia to the Americas
Bifacial flaking correct answer Cores with flakes removed from opposite sides.
Shaped something like an Axe
Biocultural evolution correct answer Pertains to the integration of biological and
cultural factors as living beings change over time
Chiefdom correct answer Tribes that have grown larger and more complicated
Cores correct answer Big stone artifact to make flakes
Cultural evolution correct answer The major changes in human society over the
deep time of ancient past
Cultural Items correct answer Portable items (stone arrow point, cell phone etc.
Dating inorganic materials correct answer TL Method Up to 500,000 BP
Dating organic materials correct answer Radiocarbon method Up to 50,000 BP
Diffusion correct answer
Early homo correct answer 2.5 million years ago to 1.5 million years ago. Larger
brains (600-800cc)
2nd human diaspora (Not out of Africa) 45,000 years ago BP humans crossed the
Sunda Stright to Sahul correct answer 12,000 years ago humans crossed Beringia
to N and S America
Absolute dating correct answer Provides an age in calendar years
Acheulean correct answer Technology named after the town of St. Aheul in
Franch based on hand axes, clevers, and flake artifacts that flourished in Africa,
Europe, asia, between 1.8 million and 200,000 years ago
Analogy correct answer A comparison of ancient artifacts to modern objects
Things that are similar in known way are probably similar in other ways
Archaeology The study of past human societies through their material remains
correct answer
Artifacts correct answer Anything used, made or modified by humans
Atapuerca correct answer Cave system that yielded fossils of 400,000 year-old
homo heidelbergensis
Band correct answer Hunters and Gatherers
Battleship curve correct answer Shows the emergence and disappearance of
something in a 2-D graph over time
, Beringia correct answer A massive landbridge in Asia to the Americas
Bifacial flaking correct answer Cores with flakes removed from opposite sides.
Shaped something like an Axe
Biocultural evolution correct answer Pertains to the integration of biological and
cultural factors as living beings change over time
Chiefdom correct answer Tribes that have grown larger and more complicated
Cores correct answer Big stone artifact to make flakes
Cultural evolution correct answer The major changes in human society over the
deep time of ancient past
Cultural Items correct answer Portable items (stone arrow point, cell phone etc.
Dating inorganic materials correct answer TL Method Up to 500,000 BP
Dating organic materials correct answer Radiocarbon method Up to 50,000 BP
Diffusion correct answer
Early homo correct answer 2.5 million years ago to 1.5 million years ago. Larger
brains (600-800cc)
