Chapter 6 Multiple Choice Questions

. Which of the following statements is true of early stone tool technology?

We are sure tools were only made by the genus Homo.

Cutmarks made by stone tools on bones are easy to identify.

Stone tools get bigger over time.

Stone tools are found in association with both Australopithecus and Homo.

. The first species of hominine to migrate out of Africa was…

Homo erectus.

Homo heidelbergensis.

Homo neanderthalensis.

Homo sapiens.

. Brain size increases…

are associated with bipedalism.

are linked with the use of fire.

start about 2.3 million years ago.

start about 4 million years ago.

. Which of these statements is NOT true of Homo erectus?

They migrated out of Africa over much of the Old World.

It is a species that displays a lot of morphological variation.

They used stone tools and followed migrating herds of game.

They used art.

. Homo heidelbergensis…

may have been the common ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans.

is found only in Europe at 1.5 million years ago.

became more lightly built in their facial and skull morphology.

were the first to make stone tools.

. Which of the following is NOT true of Neanderthals?

They are believed to have lived in groups of about 10 to 30 individuals.

Their brain size is smaller than that of modern humans.

They inhabited caves and sometimes buried their dead.

They engaged in group hunting and were highly carnivorous.

. The first discovery of a fossil modern human was…

in Africa at Olduvai Gorge.

in Germany near Heidelberg.

at a cave site called Cro-Magnon in France.

at an excavation of a mediaeval site at Dmanisi in Georgia.

. The earliest site with anatomically modern humans is…

Jebel Irhoud in Morocco at 350kya.

a cave site called Cro-Magnon in France at 30 kya.

in Germany near Heidelberg at 600 kya.

in China at Zhoukoudian at 500 kya.

. The FOXP2 gene…

determines whether a species will have language.

is present in our closest primate relatives.

suggests our closest evolutionary relationship is with orangutans.

supports our closest evolutionary relationship with chimpanzees.

. At the moment, which is the LEAST useful line of information for studying fossil relationships?

Space – where was it found?

Morphology – what do the bones/teeth look like?

Time – what is its date?

DNA studies – what are the genetic similarities and differences?

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