Deck 11: The Upper Paleolithic World

Question 1

________ are very tiny blade tools.

A) Macroliths
B) Megaliths
C) Miniliths
D) Microliths

Answer 1

Microliths

Question 2

The ________ site in Chile suggests that humans got to South America by about 12,500 to 33,000 years ago.

A) Monte Casino
B) Monte Cristo
C) Monte Verde
D) Monte Majore

Answer 2

Monte Verde

Question 3

_____________ proposed that there were three migrations to the New World from Asia.

A) Sapir-Whorf
B) Chomsky-Turner
C) Greenberg-Ruhlen
D) Hoijer-Whorf

Answer 3

Greenberg-Ruhlen

Question 4

The Upper Paleolithic coincided with the last

A) ice age.
B) thermo age.
C) dinosaur.
D) greenhouse effect.

Question 5

The most supported alternative to the Beringia model of movement of Native Americans to the Americas is that they came

A) from Asia by boat.
B) from Africa by boat.
C) on spaceships from outer space.
D) none of the above

Question 6

____________ looks at how a tool similar to one found in the past is used by people today.

A) Ethnographic analogy
B) Ethnologic analogy
C) Archaeological ethnography
D) Thick description

Question 7

__________ are chisel-like stone tools used for carving.

A) Blades
B) Punches
C) Flakes
D) Burins

Question 8

Only __________ fossils have been found in North and South America.

A) Homo erectus
B) Homo neandertalensis
C) Homo sapiens sapiens
D) Homo habilis

Question 9

Depictions of ________ are relatively rare in Upper Paleolithic European art.

A) women and men
B) children and women
C) animals and men
D) men and children

Question 10

Most of the remains that have been excavated from Upper Paleolithic sites have been found in

A) caves and rock shelters.
B) canvas tents.
C) wood huts.
D) mud dwellings.

Question 11

The site of ______________, dating to about 25,000 years ago, in the Czech Republic is one of the first for which there is an entire settlement plan.

A) Willendorf
B) Lascaux
C) Altamira
D) Dolni Vestonice

Question 12

Native Americans originally came from

A) Africa.
B) Asia.
C) Europe.
D) Australia.

Question 13

The period of culture history known as the Upper Paleolithic dates from about ______ years ago.

A) 20,000
B) 30,000
C) 40,000
D) 50,000

Question 14

_________ are the scholars who most frequently study Upper Paleolithic peoples and cultures.

A) Paleoanthropologists
B) Archaeologists
C) Ethnographers
D) Linguists

Question 15

A new invention of the Upper Paleolithic was

A) replaceable blades.
B) the spear thrower.
C) the bow and arrow.
D) all of the above

Question 16

Large game animals of the Upper Paleolithic period were known as

A) Pleistocene megafauna.
B) Paleocene megafauna.
C) Pliocene megafauna.
D) Eocene megafauna.

Question 17

In South Africa, engraved pieces of red ochre date back to more than ____ years ago.

A) 40,000
B) 50,000
C) 60,000
D) 77,000

Question 18

Upper Paleolithic tool making appears to have had its roots in the Mousterian and ______ traditions.

A) Olduvai
B) post-Acheulian
C) Levalloisian
D) Willendorf

Question 19

One of the more stunning developments in the Upper Paleolithic was the development of

A) the first stone tools.
B) art.
C) music. d literature.

Question 20

The subjects of European cave paintings are mostly

A) people
B) landscapes
C) animals
D) fruit

Question 21

Discuss what is known and speculated about the coming of the earliest humans to the New World.

Question 22

The innovation having the most lasting importance for humans, both in the Old and New Worlds was

A) domestication of plants and animals.
B) war.
C) the extinction of family life.
D) the continuation of hunting as the only source of food.

Question 23

Traces of art have been found in Upper Paleolithic sites. Most paintings were only of animals. This is believed to be because

A) they may have thought that pictures of humans could cause injury or death.
B) they may have thought theses pictures would improve their luck at hunting.
C) they may have thought the pictures would increase the supply of animals.
D) all of the above.

Question 24

Compare the Upper Paleolithic way of life in Europe with that of the Late Stone Age
in Africa.

Question 25

About 10,000 years ago, the glaciers began to disappear causing

A) the oceans to rise.
B) seas to move inland.
C) the water to inundate some of the rich coastal plains.
D) all of the above.

Question 26

What can we learn about Upper Paleolithic culture from a study of its art?

Question 27

Some adaptations to the changing environment can be seen in the cultural remains of the settlers in northern Europe called

A) Maglemosians.
B) Paleo-Indians.
C) Microliths.
D) Clovis People.

Question 28

Ethnographic analogy is a method of study based on reasoning. An example would be

A) using eyewitness accounts of tool usage from thousands of years ago to determine how tools were used in the past.
B) observing the usage of tools by contemporary societies to determine how they might have been used thousands of years ago.
C) comparing two contemporary cultures use of tools.
D) using the remains of digs to piece together as ancient culture's customs.

Question 29

Regarding the New World, anthropologists seem to agree that

A) humans were living South of Canada around 11,000 years ago.
B) humans were in North America more than 50,000 years ago.
C) humans had a very difficult time making their way to North America so gave up early.
D) humans probably had maps to follow as they made their way to North America.

Question 30

Discuss what the new perspectives on gender in the Upper Paleolithic are and the evidence
for these perspectives.

Question 31

About ________ years ago, the glaciers began to disappear.

A) 40,000
B) 30,000
C) 20,000
D) 10,000

Question 32

Discuss lithic analysis and its importance.

Question 33

The Upper Paleolithic cultures relied on hunting for food. Why?

A) it was so warm at the time
B) the population got tired of farming
C) vast supplies of meat were available
D) none of the above

Question 34

Early New World hunters are called

A) Paleo-Indians.
B) Paleo-Asians.
C) Paleontologists.
D) Paleo-humans.

Question 35

We do not know when human language emerged because

A) there is so much archaeological evidence, it is hard to put it together.
B) it is difficult to explore archaeologically.
C) anthropologists are not very interested in this topic.
D) it started with a common ancestor which we haven't identified yet.

Question 36

The tools found just south of the Rockies on the High Plains are known as the ________.

A) Pippin complex
B) Charlemagne complex
C) Martel complex
D) Clovis complex

Question 37

During the Upper Paleolithic the world experienced the last ice age. This caused the world's temperature to be

A) an average of 50 degrees below today's.
B) no different than today's.
C) an average of 10 degrees warmer than today's.
D) no one is really certain of its effects.

Question 38

Theories about H. sapiens making their way to North America include:

A) they came from Asia.
B) they walked across a land bridge which is now the Bering Strait.
C) they came from Europe.
D) both a and b are correct.

Question 39

Archaic peoples of North America began to follow a more ______ lifestyle.

A) nomadic
B) sedentary
C) adventurous
D) none of the above

Question 40

An archaeological site in Colorado shows that early hunters were

A) always hunting alone.
B) never hunting bison because they saw them as sacred.
C) organized and worked together.
D) hunting only small birds and rabbits.

Question 41

Evaluate the current theories of migration into the New World.

Question 42

Discuss the manner in which changes in climate at the end of the ice age helped bring
about changes in culture.

Question 43

How did the lives of Paleo-Indians differ from those of Archaic Indians?

Question 44

Why was the increased use of microliths important in cultural change?

Question 45

Why is the Upper Paleolithic an important period in culture history?