Recent archaeological research in South Africa has demonstrated that the ancestors of black South Africans __________
A. were not present in the region until around the same time as the arrival of white settlers
B. occupied the region some 1,500 years before the initial European settlement
C. came from the north as migrating, Bantu-speaking farmers in the latter half of the eighteenth century
D. are most closely related to the Australian Aborigines
Answer: B
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The Movius line separates __________
a. Oldowan from Acheulean tools b. Chatelperronian from Acheulean tools c. hand-axe bearing areas from those without hand axes d. Chatelperronian from Oldowan tools
One of the preconceptions that the researchers in “Riverfront” Wisconsin found to be false was the expected __________ of the population there
a. friendliness b. homogeneity c. heterogeneity d. class consciousness
_________ was an eighteenth-century thinker who believed that living forms changed in response to the environment. Although he did not think nature was perfect or had a grand purpose, he still rejected the idea that one species could give rise to another
a. Alfred Russel Wallace b. Georges-Louis Comte Leclerc de Buffon c. Erasmus Darwin d. John Ray e. Georges Cuvier
The study of how bones and other materials come to be preserved in the earth as fossils is called:
a. fossology. b. relative dating. c. paleoanthropology. d. taphonomy. e. taxonomy.