Anthropology Final Exam Questions And Answers 100% Pass

Which species became increasingly specialized to foods requiring heavy chewing? {Ans: Paranthropus}The Middle Paleolithic is associated with _________ tools which Neandertals produced. {Ans: Mousterian}All fossils of archaic Homo sapiens and earlier Homo erectus show: {Ans: both a. and b. (continued reduction in skeletal robusticity and tooth size; expansion of the brain and increased cultural complexity)}Briefly discuss the fossil evidence of Homo habilis, and describe the anatomical and behavioral traits of Homo habilis relevant to the evolution of Homo sapiens. {Ans: NEED TO EDIT THIS ANSWER" Has slightly larger brain case and a smaller face and teeth with a slightly prognathic face. Even though they had smaller teeth, their strong tooth enamel and jaws showed that they were still capable of chewing harder foods.}The Herto skulls from Ethiopia as discussed in Chapter 12: {Ans: have a combination of archaic and modern features}Homo habilis experienced a major shift to new environments that was characterized by ___ {Ans: tool used for obtaining and processing food}As discussed in Chapter 12, early Native Americans used which distinctive fluted spear points to hunt large-bodied Ice Age mammals? {Ans: Folsom points}Homo erectus high degree of adaptive success is evidenced by