Canadian Prehistory Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Canadian Prehistory explores the history and development of human societies in the territory now known as Canada before the arrival of written records and European contact. Through archaeological and environmental evidence, the course examines the migration routes of the first peoples, their adaptation to diverse environments, technological innovations, social organization, and cultural expressions. Topics include the peopling of the Americas, regional prehistoric cultures, subsistence strategies, and major archaeological discoveries that shed light on the evolving lifeways of Indigenous communities over thousands of years. The course emphasizes the importance of collaboration with Indigenous perspectives and revisits how scientific interpretations have changed over time.
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Physical Anthropology and Archaeology 4th Canadian Edition by Carol R. Ember
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Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology?
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Q1) The biocultural model is of no use in reconstructing early hominid behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Traditionally, anthropologists have studied
A) ancient historical texts.
B) non-Western cultures.
C) the spread of European colonialism.
D) the development of new technologies through time.
E) Western civilizations.
Answer: B
Q3) Evidence from anthropological studies of reduced milk consumption by African-American school children in the 1960s suggested it was the result of A) lactose intolerance.
B) economic stress.
C) poor education.
D) cultural taboos.
E) none of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Uncovering the Past: Tools and Techniques
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Q1) Microscopic granules of silicon dioxide in plant cells are called ________.
A) ecofacts
B) phytoliths
C) features
D) datums
E) isotopes
Answer: B
Q2) The main difference between archaeological sites and fossil locales is
A) features are found only at fossil locales.
B) fossil locales only yield animal remains.
C) archaeological sites are younger than fossil sites.
D) human remains are always associated with archaeological sites.
E) artifacts are only found at archaeological sites.
Answer: C
Q3) Humans started making ceramics about 50 000 years ago.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Reconstructing the Past: Analysis and Interpretation
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Q1) ________ occurs when elements of a society's culture are first taken up by neighbouring socieites and gradually spread farther and farther afield.
A) Innovation
B) Diffusion
C) Direct contact
D) Intermediate contact
E) Migration
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is not an aspect of palaeodemography?
A) the identification of archaeological evidence for economic and trade links between ancient societies
B) the study of the age structure of a past population
C) the study of the sex structure of a past population
D) the analysis of patterns of mortality, fertility and population growth
E) the analysis of archaeological evidence that would reflect settlement size
Answer: A
Q3) Why might infant skeletons have high ¹ N levels compared to the skeletons of older children?
Answer: breast feeding enriches babies' tissues with ¹ N.
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Chapter 4: Historical Development of Evolutionary Theory
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Q1) According to Darwin's theory of evolution, humans descended from monkeys.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lamarck argued that lower forms of life progress toward greater complexity and perfection.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The process of natural selection involves three conditions or principles; these are
A) adaptive traits, high rates of predation, and high reproductive success.
B) variation across individuals, heritability of favourable traits, and differential reproductive success.
C) environmental variation, the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and species striving for perfection.
D) variation between populations, populations out-competing each other, and differential survival of populations.
E) variation in adaptive traits, variation in heritability of traits, and widespread reproductive success.
Q4) What is one adaptations to terrestrial life exhibited by reptiles?
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Chapter 5: Modern Evolutionary Theory
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Q1) A long, two-stranded molecule shaped like a double helix is the structure of A) proteins.
B) ribonucleic acid (RNA).
C) uracil and adenine.
D) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
E) cytosine and guanine.
Q2) The double-stranded structure of DNA was proposed in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A ribonucleic acid that is used to copy DNA code for the use in protein synthesis is called
A) ribosome.
B) messenger RNA.
C) meiosis.
D) lysine.
E) sugar-phosphate.
Q4) How does the idea of punctuated equilibrium contrast with the traditional view on the pace of speciation?
Q5) How does the founder effect lead to genetic drift?
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Chapter 6: Human Variation
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Q1) Why in some dairying societies did natural selection favour a biological solution to adult lactose intolerance, rather than a cultural solution?
Q2) ______________ occurs when a heterozygous combination of alleles is positively favoured even though a homozygous combination is disfavoured.
A) Normalizing selection
B) Balancing selection
C) Directional selection
D) Sexual selection
E) Cultural selection
Q3) A high degree of genetic homogeneity in a population may increase susceptibility to an infectious disease.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The observed variation in world heights might be partly explained by A) temperature differences
B) poor nutrition
C) disease
D) genetics
E) all of the above
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Chapter 7: The Living Primates
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Q1) Arboreal primates tend to be larger than terrestrial ones.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Primates are characterized by stereoscopic vision.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Old World monkeys are more closely related to New World monkeys than they are to apes and humans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The primate tendency toward omnivory is reflected in their teeth. Which of the following does not apply to omnivorous primate species?
A) The premolars are unspecialized chewing teeth.
B) The canines have been lost in the course of primate evolution.
C) The incisors are specialized.
D) The canines are very specialized, especially in prosimian primates.
E) The molars are very unspecialized, especially when compared to other mammal groups.
Q5) What is the difference between prosimians and strepsirhines?
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Chapter 8: Primate Evolution: From Early Primates to Hominoids
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Q1) Paleoprimatologists are in agreement that the plesiadapiforms should be classified in the order primates.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Arboreal quadrupeds tend to have
A) prehensile tails.
B) no tails.
C) opposable thumbs.
D) long grasping fingers and toes.
E) short arms and long legs.
Q3) Omomyids are considered ________-like because of their large eyes, long tarsal bones and very small size.
A) tarsier
B) lemur
C) prosimian
D) adapid
E) loris
Q4) List the geological epochs, from the Cretaceous to the present, in consecutive order.
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Chapter 9: Early Hominins
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Q1) Based on current evidence, it appears that hominids began manufacturing stone tools at least one million years after the emergence of bipedalism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jonathan Wells and Jay Stock argue that ___________ led humans to become "colonizing apes," able to live in diverse environments.
A) convergent evolution
B) bipedalism
C) large brains
D) environmental change
E) tool use
Q3) Microscopic scratches parallel to the edge of a stone tool often occur when the tool is used as a
A) chopper.
B) hammer.
C) saw.
D) scraper.
E) whittle.
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Chapter 10: Homo Erectus and Archaic Homo Sapiens
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Q1) For Africa, the term Middle Stone Age is used instead of Middle Palaeolithic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Endocast evidence suggests hemispheric specialization was not yet present in H. erectus.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Homo erectus fossils discovered in Africa are classed as
A) Homo erectus.
B) Homo sapiens.
C) Homo rudofensis.
D) Neanderthals.
E) Homo ergaster.
Q4) Who were the Denisovans?
Q5) The migration of Homo erectus out of Africa around 2 million years ago was preceded by the migration of Homo habilis almost 250,000 years earlier.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Outline the evidence suggesting that H. erectus took part in rituals.
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Chapter 11: Modern Homo Sapiens
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Q1) What specialized structural anatomical features enabled the emergence of speech?
Q2) According to Multiregional Hypothesis of modern human origins, modern humans evolved in various parts of ________ after Homo erectus spread out of ________.
A) Asia; Africa
B) Europe; Africa
C) the New World; Asia
D) the Old World; Africa
E) Europe; Asia
Q3) In addition to the use of stone tools, the Upper paleolithic also saw large numbers of tools made from bone, antler and ivory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pleistocene megafauna did not include
A) giant ground sloths.
B) giant fox.
C) Siberian mammoth.
D) wolly rhinoceros.
E) giant deer.
Q5) Where did modern humans emerge? Summarize and compare the current theories.
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Chapter 12: Origins of Food Production and Settled Life
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Q1) In general, ________ were less important economically in the New World than in many parts of the Old World.
A) domesticated animals
B) cultivated crops
C) corn, beans and squash
D) dogs
E) none of the above
Q2) Foragers are considered __________ whereas pastoralists are known as
A) intensive agriculturalists; horticulturalists.
B) food producers; food collectors.
C) horticulturalists; intensive agriculturalists.
D) food collectors; food producers.
E) active; sedentary.
Q3) Maize (corn) was apparently first domesticated in
A) the Near East.
B) Peru.
C) West Africa.
D) the eastern United States.
E) Mexico.
Q4) What are some possible reasons why broad-spectrum collecting developed?
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Chapter 13: Origins of Cities and States
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Q1) Around ________ all of Sumer was unified under a single government.
A) 3000 BC
B) 2500 BC
C) 300 BC
D) 1750 BC
E) 5000 BC
Q2) Grave goods from burials in ancient Teotihuacan indicate
A) human sacrifice.
B) immigration.
C) extensive trade.
D) migration.
E) infanticide.
Q3) Three pyramids dominated the metropolis of Teotihuacan: the Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and the Pyramid of the Stars.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Irrigation seems to have been important in many areas in which early state societies developed.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Applied Anthropology: Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
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Q1) In nutritional anthropology, longitudinal studies involve
A) studying the same set of children at repeated age intervals.
B) studying equal numbers of infants, children, adolescents and adults.
C) sampling children from different longitudes in the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
D) sampling equally from different age groups within a population and then testing for differences between age groups.
E) introducing nutritional supplements to a population and then charting the effects.
Q2) Which of the following is considered a culture-bound syndrome?
A) AIDS.
B) Malnutrition.
C) Morning sickness.
D) Anorexia.
E) Influenza.
Q3) Why did only 20 percent of members of a Guatemalan village with malaria symptoms take advantage of free treatment while most of those with symptoms bought an injection that was not strong enough to be effective?
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