Homework answers / question archive / Question 1 1 / 1 pts Which hominin taxon is largely associated with the earliest Acheulean tools?    Homo habilis    Australopithecus africanus    Homo ergaster/Homo erectus    Homo sapiens     Question 2 1 / 1 pts The “robust” australopithecines (or Paranthropus)   had enormous chewing apparatuses    included two species who share several derived features with Homo relative to earlier australopithecines and one that is more primitive    all of these    is a grouping that includes Au

Question 1 1 / 1 pts Which hominin taxon is largely associated with the earliest Acheulean tools?    Homo habilis    Australopithecus africanus    Homo ergaster/Homo erectus    Homo sapiens     Question 2 1 / 1 pts The “robust” australopithecines (or Paranthropus)   had enormous chewing apparatuses    included two species who share several derived features with Homo relative to earlier australopithecines and one that is more primitive    all of these    is a grouping that includes Au

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Question 1

1 / 1 pts

Which hominin taxon is largely associated with the earliest Acheulean tools?

  

Homo habilis

  

Australopithecus africanus

  

Homo ergaster/Homo erectus

  

Homo sapiens

 

 

Question 2

1 / 1 pts

The “robust” australopithecines (or Paranthropus)

 

had enormous chewing apparatuses

  

included two species who share several derived features with Homo relative to earlier australopithecines and one that is more primitive

  

all of these

  

is a grouping that includes Au. aethiopicus, Au. boisei, and Au. robustus

 

 

Question 3

1 / 1 pts

Taphonomic evidence of fossils found at the earliest archaeological sites suggests that when early hominins first began exploiting animal resources they did so by:

  

only scavenging when they were sick or old

 

mainly scavenging

  

neither hunting nor scavenging

  

mainly hunting

 

 

Question 4

1 / 1 pts

Which hominin did not live between 2.5 and 1.5 Ma?

  

Australopithecus (Paranthropus) boisei

  

Homo ergaster/Homo erectus

 

Homo heidelbergensis

  

Australopithecus sediba

 

 

Question 5

1 / 1 pts

Defining features distinguishing Homo from Australopithecus are

  

a large brain and round skull

  

less facial prognathism

 

smaller teeth with thinner enamel

  

all of these

 

 

Question 6

1 / 1 pts

Which is the correct temporal order of these four stone tool traditions associated with hominin evolution? (Oldest to youngest)

  

Lomekwi, Oldowan, Acheulean, Mousterian

  

Mousterian, Acheulean, Lomekwi, Oldowan

  

Oldowan, Lomekwi, Acheulean, Mousterian

  

Acheulean, Lomekwi, Oldowan, Mousterian

 

 

Question 7

1 / 1 pts

Thus far, there is agreement that all hominins found outside Africa are members of which genus?

  

Australopithecus

  

Homo

  

Paranthropus

  

Ardipithecus

 

 

Question 8

1 / 1 pts

By about 2.5 mya, which of the following was true?

  

all hominins were members of the same genus

  

all hominins still lived only in East Africa

 

there were one or more species of the genus Homo present in East Africa

 

modern humans were living alongside australopiths

 

 

Question 9

1 / 1 pts

Which technological development seems to have first appeared in the archaeological record?

  

stone tool making

  

geometric art

  

fire technology

  

composit artifacts (hafted spears)

 

 

Question 10

1 / 1 pts

Homo ergaster/Homo erectus

  

all of these

  

made Acheulean tools

   

is the first hominin species with long legs and modern proportions

  

has a larger absolute brain size compared to earlier hominins