Prehistoric archaeologists primarily
a. try to understand the past without a written record.
b. work with present-day artifacts to understand modern cultures.
c. help us understand past building structure requirements.
d. study historical archaeology.
e. study changes in language over time.
ANS: A
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For early humans meat eating would have been more important in the
A) coastal areas than inland areas B) tropics than the temperate zones C) meat eating would have been equally important wherever they lived. D) mountainous areas than lowland areas E) temperate zones than the tropics
Compared to Neandertal skulls, anatomically modern specimens found at the Skh?l and Qafzeh sites in Israel have a modern shape. Their brain cases are
A. higher, shorter, and rounder, with a more filled-out forehead region and a marked chin. B. larger and longer, with marked brows. C. thicker, the result of an adaptation to increased interspecies violence. D. rounder and heavier, with a less marked chin. E. the largest of all hominins, even beyond modern dimensions.
Adaptations are
a. traits that evolved for a purpose other than their present purpose b. genotypic traits that decrease an organism's reproductive success c. traits that evolve according to an organism's will d. phenotypic traits that increase an organism's reproductive success
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