Author Question: During the Upper Paleolithic, the hominin range A. was limited to Europe and Africa prior to the ... (Read 69 times)

jjjetplane · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

During the Upper Paleolithic, the hominin range

A. was limited to Europe and Africa prior to the anatomically modern humans' stage of human evolution.
B. moved away from the coasts because of natural disasters like flood and drought.
C. reached its territorial maximum by 50,000 B.P.
D. expanded to its maximum when Neandertal foragers entered the New World.
E. expanded significantly, in large part due to Homo's increasing reliance on cultural means of adaptation.

Question 2

In 2003, scientists announced the 1997 discovery in an Ethiopian valley of three anatomically modern skullstwo adults and a child. Known collectively as the Herto skulls, they were dated by researchers to 154,000160,000 B.P. All of the following clues suggested these skulls were in fact of anatomically modern humans, EXCEPT

A. their long and broad midfaces.
B. their tall and narrow sagittal crests.
C. their high cranial vaults, falling within modern dimensions.
D. their tall and narrow nasal bones.
E. evidence of the skulls' cutting and handling, suggesting they had been detached from their bodies and usedperhaps rituallyafter death.