Neanderthals
a. were proven to be a direct ancestor of humans by archaeologists Ofer Bar-Yosef and Bernard Vandermeersch.
b. were an early form of human that lived in Europe and Northern Africa more than 300,000 years ago.
c. replaced archaic humans in Western Europe about 40,000 years ago.
d. were an early form of humans that lived in Europe and the Near East about 300,000 to 30,000 years ago.
e. have been agreed upon by biological anthropologists as being in the direct evolutionary line leading to H. sapiens.
d
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What will be an ideal response?
On Neolithic teeth, arrested growth caused by famine or disease shows up as a condition known as ___________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Which of the following is a primary weakness of French Structuralism?
a. It does not focus on interesting cultural questions. b. There is too much fieldwork associated with this theory and very little application. c. The theory takes account solely of European cultures and is ethnocentric. d. Structuralism is too psychological in its approach. e. It is a theory that cannot be tested empirically.
The subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with various aspects of human language is called
a. primatology. b. linguistic anthropology. c. ethnology. d. paleoanthropology. e. anthropometry.