Objects or materials made or modified for use by hominins are called:
a. ?data.
b. ?fossils.
c. ?ethnographies.
d. ?empiricism.
e. ?artifacts.
e
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a. 1 year old b. 2 years old c. 3 years old d. 5 years old
What is so significant about the recent fossil finds of an H. erectus and an H. habilis from Ileret, Kenya, east of Lake Turkana?
A. They prove that H. erectus and H. habilis coexisted in the same ecological niche and eventually interbred to result in a single species. B. They confirm that H. habilis evolved from H. erectus. C. They prove that sexual dimorphism was finally absent as a trend in human evolution by 2 m.y.a. D. They negate the conventional view held since 1960 that habilis and erectus evolved one after the other. Instead, they lived side by side in eastern Africa for perhaps half a million years. E. They prove that functional differentiation in toolmaking preceded the advent of Homo.
Which of the following statements is not true?
a. Enamel hypoplasias require X-rays to be detected. b. Enamel hypoplasias are more permanent than Harris lines. c. Enamel hypoplasias can be measured to estimate the age a period of growth arrest took place. d. Enamel hypoplasias can be measured to estimate the duration of the period of growth arrest. e. Enamel hypoplasias can be measured to indicate the duration of the period of stress.
Every language has a limited number of sounds and rules for combining them to create units of meaning. This characteristic of language is called
a. productivity. b. arbitrariness. c. discreteness. d. displacement.