1. Paleolithic humans
(A) domesticated animals
(B) discovered agriculture
(C) organized themselves based on a well-defined social hierarchy
(D) formed exclusively matriarchal societies
(E) relied on foraging
2. In which of the following regions did native peoples NOT develop agriculture?
(A) southern Asia
(B) southwestern Asia
(C) Australia
(D) northern Africa
(E) Andean highlands
3. All of the following are means of determining the approximate dates of human cultures in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras EXCEPT
(A) stratigraphy
(B) cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation
(C) paleontology
(D) paleobotany
(E) typology
4. It is believed that women in early Neolithic society
(A) usually accompanied men on hunting expeditions
(B) usually led the clan
(C) were expected to devote themselves solely to child care
(D) experienced a rigid sexual division of labor
(E) were probably the first farmers
5. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of eras?
(A) Paleolithic, Neolithic, Iron Age, Chalcolithic
(B) Paleolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Chalcolithic
(C) Neolithic, Bronze Age, Paleolithic, Chalcolithic
(D) Chalcolithic, Iron Age, Bronze Age, Paleolithic
(E) Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age
6. The knowledge of agriculture
(A) was confined to river valley cultures
(B) arose in different areas of the world around the same time
(C) was usually passed from one culture to another
(D) diffused throughout the Eastern Hemisphere only
(E) developed first in Mesoamerica
7. All of the following are true of the Bering land bridge EXCEPT that it
(A) allowed wooly mammoths to travel from Asia to North America
(B) disappeared about 12,000 BCE
(C) was close to 1,000 miles north to south at its widest point
(D) existed during the Pleistocene ice ages
(E) enabled Paleo-Indians to colonize Asia from North America
8. The Lascaux cave paintings could be used as a primary source in a study of
(A) Paleolithic humans
(B) Neolithic humans
(C) the Nok culture
(D) ancient Austronesian peoples
(E) Australopithecus robustus
9. The Neolithic Revolution refers to
(A) the invention of metallurgy
(B) the ability to create fire at will
(C) the extinction of the Neanderthals that allowed Homo sapiens sapiens to populate the planet
(D) the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture
(E) the development of tool-making capabilities by humans
10. Most Neolithic cultures included all of the following EXCEPT
(A) religious beliefs
(B) tools
(C) sundials
(D) artwork
(E) fire
11. Piltdown Man shows that
(A) the large modern brain preceded the modern omnivorous diet
(B) scientists can sometimes be dishonest or naive
(C) the “missing link” came from England
(D) species can sometimes make gigantic evolutionary leaps
(E) there is no such thing as a “missing link”
12. The first humans probably evolved in
(A) Africa in the Pleistocene era
(B) Asia in the Jurassic era
(C) Africa in the Cretaceous era
(D) Asia in the Permian era
(E) Africa in the Carboniferous era
13. The earliest species to be classified in the same Homo species as modern humans is
(A) Homo erectus
(B) Homo habilis
(C) Australopithecus robustus
(D) Java Man
(E) Peking Man
14. Which of the following artifacts is likely to be from the Neolithic period?
(A) An aqueduct
(B) A codex
(C) A representation of a goddess of vegetation
(D) An iron plow
(E) Glyphs
15. All of the following are true about Lucy, a fossilized skeleton found by Donald Johanson in 1974, EXCEPT that
(A) she was found in Ethiopia
(B) she is classified as an Australopithecus afarensis
(C) her skeleton implied that an increase in brain size preceded bipedalism in human evolution
(D) she probably lived about 3.2 million years ago
(E) she was a hominid
16. Determining the age of an ancient culture by counting the layers created by melts of water from a receding ice sheet is known as
(A) aquachronology
(B) geochronology
(C) dendrochronology
(D) paleobotany
(E) carbon 14 dating
17. Neanderthals
(A) were first discovered in Africa in the 1960s
(B) walked like a chimp or an orangutan
(C) became extinct because they failed to develop tools
(D) lived on earth between about 1 million and 600,000 years ago
(E) coexisted with modern humans for at least 10,000 years
18. The Iron Age
(A) preceded the Stone Age
(B) preceded the Bronze Age
(C) left few artifacts, because iron is so malleable
(D) led to new forms of implements, weapons, and pottery
(E) began about 12,000 BCE
19. Scientists believe that the first people whose brains and bodies were close to those of modern-day humans—Homo sapiens—appeared about how many years ago?
(A) 4 million
(B) 1 million
(C) 400,000
(D) 40,000
(E) 10,000
20. Hunter-gatherer societies were first supplanted by societies based on the domestication of plants and animals about
(A) 1 million BCE
(B) 400,000 BCE
(C) 100,000 BCE
(D) 40,000 BCE
(E) 10,000 BCE
21. Which event occurred after the domestication of sheep, pigs, and goats?
(A) The invention of the wheel
(B) The development of language
(C) The use of stone tools
(D) The creation of so-called Venus figurines
(E) None of the above
22. All of the following are true of the Neolithic Revolution EXCEPT that it led to
(A) new irrigation and food-storage technologies
(B) trading economies
(C) the development of nonportable art and architecture
(D) centralized administrations and political structures
(E) the discovery of fire making
23. As of 2012, the best-preserved Neolithic archaeological site is
(A) Selçuk
(B) Nineveh
(C) Tel Maresha
(D) Çatal Hüyük
(E) Cahokia
24. All of the following are true of Jericho EXCEPT that
(A) it is located in present-day Palestinian territories
(B) contrary to popular belief, it lacked thick city walls
(C) it became a trade center connecting Anatolia with places around the Red Sea
(D) it relied on the cultivation of wheat and barley
(E) it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
25. Bronze is
(A) a metal primarily used for making warriors’ helmets
(B) a medal awarded to the third-place winner in the mammoth-killing contest
(C) an alloy usually composed of copper and tin
(D) an alloy composed of tin and arsenic