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The Hopewell were complex rank societies, but they were not a state. Hopewell culture lacked all of the following elements EXCEPT: | [
"formal government",
"monumental earthworks",
"urban centers",
"a permanent military"
]
| 1B
|
That modern Africans do not possess any Neandertal DNA indicates that: | [
"Gene flow between Neandertals and anatomically modern humans must have occurred before Neandertals migrated out of Africa.",
"Gene flow between Neandertals and anatomically modern humans occurred after anatomically modern humans migrated out of Africa.",
"Neandertals who lived in Africa did not interbreed with anatomically modern humans, but must have followed them when they migrated out of Africa.",
"Interbreeding between anatomically modern humans and Neandertals never occurred."
]
| 1B
|
The face of Homo erectus was more ________ than modern humans, but less so than Homo habilis. | [
"altricial",
"hairy",
"occipital",
"prognathous"
]
| 3D
|
What do anthropologists NOT need to know to determine when people entered the Americas from Siberia? | [
"When sled dogs were first domesticated",
"When the Bering Strait was exposed and open for travel",
"When eastern Siberia was first inhabited",
"The age of the earliest New World sites"
]
| 0A
|
A design that is not painted upon but is etched into a rock face is called a: | [
"pictograph.",
"petroglyph.",
"pictorial.",
"petrification."
]
| 1B
|
Interestingly, none of the civilizations of ancient South America appear to have developed: | [
"monumental works.",
"irrigation technology.",
"a written language.",
"significant armies."
]
| 2C
|
Which of the following is not a hypothesis for why hominids walked on two legs? | [
"it freed the hands to carry things",
"it allowed for braincase expansion",
"it expended less energy than quadrupedalism for going long distances",
"it allowed hominids to see greater distances"
]
| 1B
|
Why is Catalhoyuk in central Turkey regarded as a large village but not a city? | [
"There were no palaces, public architecture, and little evidence for status differentiation.",
"There was no evidence for food storage, domesticated animals, or buildings.",
"There were no works of art, rituals, or activities associated with cities.",
"There was no evidence for monumental architecture or roads."
]
| 0A
|
With which of the following techniques were the native navigators of the Pacific NOT familiar? | [
"bird flight paths",
"currents and wind patterns",
"magnetic orientation to the poles",
"cloud patterns"
]
| 2C
|
Clovis points are NOT found in: | [
"Alaska.",
"Mexico.",
"Canada.",
"the continental United States."
]
| 0A
|
By 1900 B.P., the central elements of Mayan culture were in place. These did NOT include: | [
"stratified societies ruled by kings.",
"ritual ball games and a reverence for precious jade.",
"a sophisticated bronze producing industry.",
"a hieroglyphic written language and calendar."
]
| 2C
|
What was NOT a deciding factor in the development of Mesopotamian civilization? | [
"the need to concentrate population away from arable lands near rivers",
"the need to construct monumental works, such as step-pyramids and temples",
"the need to develop a complex social system that would allow the construction of canals",
"the use of irrigation to produce enough food"
]
| 0A
|
Which of the following crops was NOT an important component of Hopewell subsistence? | [
"sunflower",
"squash",
"maize",
"knotweed"
]
| 2C
|
The argument in favor of hominids making and using stone tools by at least 3.3 million years ago is supported by: | [
"cut marks on animal bones that were made by butchering with pieces of stone.",
"the anatomy of Australopithecus africanus hands and analogies with studies of living non-human primates that demonstrate tool use.",
"simple stone cores, anvil stones, and flakes found at the Lomekwi 3 site in West Turkana, Kenya.",
"all of the above."
]
| 3D
|
The skulls of the earliest migrants to the New World do not match those of modern Native Americans. This suggests that: | [
"modern Native Americans are probably not descended from these early migrants.",
"the \"skull\" haplogroup was not passed on.",
"modern Native Americans have very different DNA.",
"craniometrics is an unreliable method of tracking populations."
]
| 3D
|
Which of the following is NOT true of the main Indus Valley cities? | [
"A citadel was built on the western margin of each city.",
"The \"upper cities\" were encompassed by monumental walls.",
"The blocks of residences were added haphazardly as needed.",
"The bricks used in the houses were a consistent size and shape."
]
| 2C
|
Which of the following is NOT an innovation of the Mesolithic? | [
"canoes",
"domestication of animals",
"European use of bow and arrow",
"crop irrigation systems"
]
| 3D
|
The reason that archaeologists long suggested that the walls of Great Zimbabwe could not have been built by an indigenous sub-Saharan people was that: | [
"the architecture was clearly built by Egyptians.",
"historical records show that it was constructed by early Dutch settlers.",
"symbolic motifs incorporated into the walls indicate that they were built by Indian traders.",
"they thought sub-Saharan Africans were incapable of such achievements."
]
| 3D
|
Which of the following is NOT one of Joseph Tainter's proposed causes for the collapse of ancient civilizations? | [
"resource depletion",
"economic decline",
"elite mismanagement",
"epidemic disease"
]
| 3D
|
Which of the following is more complex than a tribe but less complex than a state? | [
"chiefdom",
"archaic state",
"egalitarian society",
"democratic state"
]
| 0A
|
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