Final Exam - 01. As a result of biological evolution, humankind
acquired the capacity to produce culture on a grand scale and in turn
became the product of culture.
Final Exam - 02. Biology has little or no effect upon culture.
Only the environment can influence culture, and only culture can influence
the environment.
Final Exam - 03. Although the "missing link" has not yet been found,
the search generally continues in studies of prehistoric cultures for
a missing link which is half human and half ape.
Final Exam - 04. Culture:
- A. is learned behavior which is passed on from generation to
generation through nongenetic processes
- B. refers to the innate or inherited behavior of our species
- C. refers to universal behavior patterns
- D. has no effect on a population's survival
- E. none of the above
answer
Final Exam - 05. Stratigraphy refers to the road-building activities
of Neolithic communities.
Final Exam - 06. People often bury their dead by digging holes
in the ground and placing the bodies inside the holes. For paleontologists,
this is an example of:
- A. an intrusion
- B. a subversion
- C. an inversion
- D. an implantation
- E. none of the above
answer
Final Exam - 07. Since Carbon-14 has a half-life of about 5730
years, this means that 3/4 of the original carbon-14 will be gone about
11,460 years after the death of the plant or animal.
Final Exam - 08. Vitamin D seems to be involved with the color
of skin among human populations.
Final Exam - 09. The terms "Paleolithic," "Mesolithic," and "Neolithic"
refer to the three subdivisions of:
- A. the Stone Age
- B. the Iron Age
- C. the Ice Age
- D. the Bronze Age
- E. none of the above
answer
Final Exam - 10. One sign of the development of leadership roles
and group identification may have been:
- A. the demise of the Neanderthals
- B. the success of Magdalenian hunting
- C. the early use of jewelry
- D. the domestication of corn
- E. none of the above
answer
Final Exam - 11. The earliest definite appearance of the bow and
arrow was in the Lower Paleolithic.
Final Exam - 12. The Lower Paleolithic is associated with:
- A. Mousterian cultures
- B. Homo erectus and Neanderthal
- C. Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo
erectus
- D. The Flintstones
- E. none of the above
answer
Final Exam - 13. Cultures around the world vary in the degree to
which they allow human, biologically based, differences to express themselves.
Final Exam - 14. Evolutionary factors may be partly responsible
for a number of diseases that come increasingly after middle age. This
is probably related to the fact that the body's immune system reflects
the notion that in the remote past people too old for hunting and fighting
and reproducing likely played minor roles in society.
Final Exam - 15. Assume you discover a primate skull with large
brow ridges, 1450 cc cranial capacity, sloping forehead, and occipital
"bunning." The skull is probably from a:
- A. Paranthropus robustus
- B. gorilla
- C. Homo erectus
- D. classic Neanderthal
- E. anatomically modern Homo sapiens
answer
Final Exam - 16. Most often in hunting-oriented societies females
provide a dependable source of food by collecting plant foods, thus
making regular hunting possible in areas where the probability of coming
back from hunting empty-handed was high.
Final Exam - 17. The videos The Desert People and The
Hunters illustrates the fact that male-male and female-female relationships
are pretty much the same in all "band" societies.
Final Exam - 18. Culture was not important until the Homo erectus
stage of development.
Final Exam - 19. The cultural tradition associated with Neanderthal
is called:
- A. Gravettian
- B. Mousterian
- C. Acheulian
- D. Magdelanian
- E. none of the above
answer
Final Exam - 20. The majority of the famous "venus" female figurines
were made by bearers of the:
- A. Aurignacian culture
- B. Perigordian culture
- C. Maglemosian culture
- D. Olmec culture
- E. none of the above
answer
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