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ANT 2500 Exam 3
Exam 3 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pleistocene often called | Ice Age |
| Glaciations | Climatic itervals when ice sheets covered much of the northern continents |
| Glaciations caused... | Northern areas of Europe and Asia unihabitable |
| Integlacials | Intervals when continental ice sheets retreating and becoming smaller |
| Integlacials caused | certain migration routes to reopen |
| Homo erectus was succeeded by | Premoderns (coexisted for long periods in Asia) |
| Features of Premoderns | Larger Brain, Rounded Brain Case, Maximum Breath |
| Homo heidelbergensis fossils found in | Africa and Europe |
| Premoderns were recently considered | primitive, transitional "Homo sapiens" |
| Premoderns called | Archaic Homo sapiens |
| Premoderns ancestors to... | Both modern humans and Neandertals |
| Premodern Humans of Middle Pleistocene | 1. Africa2. Europe3. Asia |
| Africa (fossils) | Premodern fossils found at several sites in South and East Africa |
| Kabwe | One of best known premodern fossils & mixture of older and recent traits |
| Bodo | One of earliest Homo hidelbergensis in Africa |
| Homo heidlebergenis sites in Europe | Sima de los Huesos at Atapuerca & near Gran Dolina |
| Chinese paleoanthropologists | (Homo heidelbergnsis) suggest that more ancestral traits are shared with Homo erectus fossils (Zhoukoudian) |
| Homo erectus and Homo sapien mixture | Homo heidelbergensis |
| Evolution of Homo Heidelbergensis (Africa) | Homo sapiens |
| Evolution of Homo Heidelbergensis (Europe) | Neandertal |
| Levallois Technique | refers to stone tool making |
| Schoningen in Germany | suggest strong case for hunting (three preserved wooden spears) |
| Most Neander fossils found | in Europe |
| Neandertal brain | larger that today's brain |