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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. An example of Neanderthal material culture is a necklace or bracelet, dated ca. 130,000 BCE made, out of what
material?
a. Tiger fangs
b. Eagle talons
c. Copper wire
d. Enamel disks
ANSWER: b
2. When was the first evidence of painted works from “deep history” discovered?
a. 2008 in southwestern Germany
b. 15,000 years ago in the Ukraine
c. 1879 in Altamira, Spain
d. 2017 on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
ANSWER: c
3. Which Neolithic culture produced this “flame-rimmed” deep bowl in ca. 3500-2500 BCE?
a. The Jomon people of Japan
b. The Mnajdra culture of Malta
c. The Yangshao culture of China
d. The people of Catal Höyük, Turkey
ANSWER: a
4. Which material led to important technological developments such as tool production and the discovery of fire for
Homo sapiens in the Paleolithic era?
a. Granite
b. Iron
c. Wood
d. Flint
ANSWER: d
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5. What do archeologists believe the Venus of Hohle Fels most likely represents?
a. A tribal ruler
b. A fertility figure
c. A hunting tool
d. A child’s doll
ANSWER: b
6. These blades from the Neolithic community of Catal Höyük are made of what material?
a. Granite
b. Wood
c. Obsidian
d. Marble
ANSWER: c
7. What does the discovery of a number of prehistoric flutes in caves near painted walls suggest?
a. Musical instruments probably also served as painting tools.
b. The importance of music in Neolithic coming-of-age ceremonies.
c. The use of music as a rudimentary form of language among Neanderthals.
d. A relationship between Paleolithic art and music.
ANSWER: d
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8. Discoveries of pottery made in Neolithic settlements in present-day China and Japan reveal that the pottery was
made using which technique?
a. Wheel throwing
b. Mold making
c. Carving
d. Coiling
ANSWER: d
9. Where do scholars believe Homo sapiens originated about 200,000 years ago?
a. The Americas
b. Africa
c. South Asia
d. Eastern Europe
ANSWER: b
10. What kind of buildings were discovered at Stonehenge and the island of Malta?
a. Megalithic
b. Paleolithic
c. Microlithic
d. Mesolithic
ANSWER: a
11. Where was this Neolithic rock painting of a running or dancing woman discovered?
a. Turkey
b. Austria
c. Africa
d. France
ANSWER: c
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12. What material was used to construct the defensive walls of the Neolithic city of Jericho?
a. Stone and mortar
b. Wooden frames
c. Stone without mortar
d. Reinforced concrete
ANSWER: c
13. What accounts for the different scale and style of the animals rendered in the Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux,
France?
a. The artists employed an early version of perspective.
b. The artists wished to establish a hierarchy of the animals’ importance.
c. The animals were rendered at different time periods by different artists.
d. The animals were rendered with increasing realism over time.
ANSWER: c
14. Aged at ca. 65,000 BCE, what do the rock drawings at La Pasiega Cave, Spain, suggest to archaeologists?
a. That the La Pasiega Cave paintings were influenced by the paintings at Lascaux, France.
b. That the earliest European cave paintings were made by Neanderthals.
c. That European cave paintings did not develop until the Neolithic period.
d. That the La Pasiega Cave paintings were more sophisticated than later cave paintings.
ANSWER: b
15. The Mesolithic period saw what major development?
a. Climate change worldwide
b. A prolonged ice age
c. The production and use of metal tools
d. The construction of the first pyramids
ANSWER: a
16. As early as 400,000 BCE, Neanderthals were able to build and live in what kind of shelters?
a. Rock-cut dwellings
b. Natural caves
c. Multi-story structures
d. Freestanding domed huts
ANSWER: d
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Chap 01 10e - Fichner-Rathus
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. An example of Neanderthal material culture is a necklace or bracelet, dated ca. 130,000 BCE made, out of what
material?
a. Tiger fangs
b. Eagle talons
c. Copper wire
d. Enamel disks
ANSWER: b
2. When was the first evidence of painted works from “deep history” discovered?
a. 2008 in southwestern Germany
b. 15,000 years ago in the Ukraine
c. 1879 in Altamira, Spain
d. 2017 on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
ANSWER: c
3. Which Neolithic culture produced this “flame-rimmed” deep bowl in ca. 3500-2500 BCE?
a. The Jomon people of Japan
b. The Mnajdra culture of Malta
c. The Yangshao culture of China
d. The people of Catal Höyük, Turkey
ANSWER: a
4. Which material led to important technological developments such as tool production and the discovery of fire for
Homo sapiens in the Paleolithic era?
a. Granite
b. Iron
c. Wood
d. Flint
ANSWER: d
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5. What do archeologists believe the Venus of Hohle Fels most likely represents?
a. A tribal ruler
b. A fertility figure
c. A hunting tool
d. A child’s doll
ANSWER: b
6. These blades from the Neolithic community of Catal Höyük are made of what material?
a. Granite
b. Wood
c. Obsidian
d. Marble
ANSWER: c
7. What does the discovery of a number of prehistoric flutes in caves near painted walls suggest?
a. Musical instruments probably also served as painting tools.
b. The importance of music in Neolithic coming-of-age ceremonies.
c. The use of music as a rudimentary form of language among Neanderthals.
d. A relationship between Paleolithic art and music.
ANSWER: d
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8. Discoveries of pottery made in Neolithic settlements in present-day China and Japan reveal that the pottery was
made using which technique?
a. Wheel throwing
b. Mold making
c. Carving
d. Coiling
ANSWER: d
9. Where do scholars believe Homo sapiens originated about 200,000 years ago?
a. The Americas
b. Africa
c. South Asia
d. Eastern Europe
ANSWER: b
10. What kind of buildings were discovered at Stonehenge and the island of Malta?
a. Megalithic
b. Paleolithic
c. Microlithic
d. Mesolithic
ANSWER: a
11. Where was this Neolithic rock painting of a running or dancing woman discovered?
a. Turkey
b. Austria
c. Africa
d. France
ANSWER: c
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12. What material was used to construct the defensive walls of the Neolithic city of Jericho?
a. Stone and mortar
b. Wooden frames
c. Stone without mortar
d. Reinforced concrete
ANSWER: c
13. What accounts for the different scale and style of the animals rendered in the Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux,
France?
a. The artists employed an early version of perspective.
b. The artists wished to establish a hierarchy of the animals’ importance.
c. The animals were rendered at different time periods by different artists.
d. The animals were rendered with increasing realism over time.
ANSWER: c
14. Aged at ca. 65,000 BCE, what do the rock drawings at La Pasiega Cave, Spain, suggest to archaeologists?
a. That the La Pasiega Cave paintings were influenced by the paintings at Lascaux, France.
b. That the earliest European cave paintings were made by Neanderthals.
c. That European cave paintings did not develop until the Neolithic period.
d. That the La Pasiega Cave paintings were more sophisticated than later cave paintings.
ANSWER: b
15. The Mesolithic period saw what major development?
a. Climate change worldwide
b. A prolonged ice age
c. The production and use of metal tools
d. The construction of the first pyramids
ANSWER: a
16. As early as 400,000 BCE, Neanderthals were able to build and live in what kind of shelters?
a. Rock-cut dwellings
b. Natural caves
c. Multi-story structures
d. Freestanding domed huts
ANSWER: d
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