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ANT 2140
Test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aubrey Site, TX | Clovis site, one of the oldest late pleistocene sites in north america, challenges the theory that clovis people were only big-game hunters |
| Beringia | Bridge to the Americas. Land bridge people used to migrate from Siberia to Alaska. |
| Blombos Cave, South Africa | 75kyo ochre engraved with abstract designs, 80kyo bone tools, beads made out of nassarius; earliest evidence of shellfishing and fishing found here, dating to 140kyo. |
| Dmanisi, Georgia | earliest known hominid site outside of africa |
| Dolni Vestonice | site where all the mammoth bones were found. thought to be a gathering place for people. |
| Herto, Ethiopia | oldest known human fossils found here, 160kyo |
| Kebara | hunter-gatherer sites, came before natufian, wadi kebara is famous kebaran site. |
| Klasies River Mouth | africa, some of the oldest evidence of homo sapiens, people and tools date to as far back as 120kyo |
| Koobi Fora, Kenya | contain hominin fossils which date to between 2.1 and 1.3mya. and stone tools dating to 2.2mya |
| Laetoli | where footprints of three australopithecines were found in the volcanic ash |
| Lake Mungo, Australia | discovery of mungo man, oldest human remains found in australia, and mungo lady, oldest human remains in the world to be ritually cremated |
| L’anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland | only known site of a norse or viking village in canada, and in north america outside greenland |
| Lascaux, France | cave site in france famous for its paleolithic cave paintings. |
| Levant | The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Cyprus, Turkey's Hatay Province and some regions of Iraq or the Sinai Peninsula. |
| Meadowcraft, PA | native american occupancy between 16 and 19kya |
| Monte Verde, Chile | shows human settlements in americas predates the clovis period by 1000 years, |
| Mal'ta, Russia | paleolithic, nude woman figurines, mobility art, mammoth bone ivory sculpture of a horse |
| New Guinea | Information not yet available, place in australia where human remains date to more than 30kya |
| Nariokatome | place where turkana boy was found, a nearly complete skeleton of a homo erectus boy. |
| Nauwalabila | pleistocene rock shelter, australia, aboriginal, bifacial tools |
| Nihewan Basin, China | human remains dating to more than 1mya, documents hominid dispersal to eastern asia, oldowan like stone technology. |
| Omo | bones are the earliest to be classified as homo sapien |
| Qafzeh | human fossils discovered in the Qafzeh and Es Skhul Caves in Israel, regarded as a separate lineage from the Neanderthals, and may represent one of the first exodus of modern humans from Africa around 125,000 years ago, also known as skhul |
| Paloma, Peru | preceramic period site, predates inca by several thousand years, andean |
| Piedra Pintada, Brazil | cave, rock paintings |
| Rift Valley | continuous geographic trench that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa. |
| Rouffignac | finger fluting, magdalian, very young, cave, |
| Sahul | when sea levels fell during the pleistocene, the sahul shelf was exposed to dry land, allowing for a land bridge between australia, new guinea, and aru islands |
| Sangiran, Java | indonesia, fossils of some of the earliest human ancestors found here uncluding meganthropus |
| Shanidar, Iraq | cave that yeilded the first neanderthal skeletons in iraq, dating to 60-80kya |
| Siberia | cold, many sites, arzhan, |
| Swan Point, AK | oldest known site in the Tanana River Valley, has been occupied five times since the pleistocene. |
| Sunda | Pleistocene-age continent made up of Southeast Asia and Indonesian Islands |
| Sungir, Russia | grave to an older man and two children. They were all adorned with elaborate grave goods that included ivory-beaded jewelry, clothing, and spears. The site is one of the earliest known ritual burials. |
| Wallace Trench/Line | an imaginary line in Indonesia between Borneo and the island to its immediate east, Sulawesi |
| Wallacea | a group of Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves. |
| Wrangel island | Where the last of the mammoths lived. |
| Zhoukoudian Cave, China | cave system, one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, was found |
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