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During the Pleistocene era what was the name of the landmass connecting the islands of Java, Sumatra, Bali, and Borneo? |
| | A) | Sahul |
| | B) | Wallacea |
| | C) | Sunda |
| | D) | Pangea |
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During the Pleistocene era what was the name of the landmass connecting Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania? |
| | A) | Sahul |
| | B) | Wallacea |
| | C) | Sunda |
| | D) | Bering Strait |
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What is the name of the undersea chasm located between New Guinea/Australia and Java/Borneo? |
| | A) | Sahul |
| | B) | the Wallace Trench |
| | C) | Sunda |
| | D) | Bering Strait |
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Primitive mammals that give birth to very immature young who complete their gestation in pouches are called: |
| | A) | monotremes. |
| | B) | marsupials. |
| | C) | kangaroos. |
| | D) | platypuses. |
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What occupation date do most archaeologists agree on for Australia? |
| | A) | No earlier than 80,000 years ago. |
| | B) | No earlier than 60,000 years ago. |
| | C) | No earlier than 40,000 years ago. |
| | D) | No earlier than 20,000 years ago. |
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When did Aborigines occupy the harsh interior of Australia? |
| | A) | 10,000-12,000 years ago. |
| | B) | 20,000-25,000 years ago. |
| | C) | 35,000-40,000 years ago. |
| | D) | 40,000-45,000 years ago. |
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Which of the following is the last to be occupied by human beings? |
| | A) | New Guinea |
| | B) | Australia |
| | C) | New Zealand |
| | D) | Timor |
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What was the climate of Greater Australia 20,000 years ago? |
| | A) | temperate |
| | B) | hot and dry |
| | C) | frozen tundra |
| | D) | All the above. |
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To which grouping does New Zealand belong? |
| | A) | Melanesia |
| | B) | Polynesia |
| | C) | Micronesia |
| | D) | None of the above. |
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With which of the following techniques were the native navigators of the Pacific familiar? |
| | A) | currents and wind patterns |
| | B) | cloud patterns |
| | C) | bird flight paths |
| | D) | All the above |
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The Lapita designation is applied to the entire cultural complex of Polynesia but was first named after what? |
| | A) | a pottery style |
| | B) | a tool technology |
| | C) | a maritime adaptation |
| | D) | a root crop |
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The New World, ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus, was filled with approximately how many people? |
| | A) | 100,000 |
| | B) | 500,000 |
| | C) | 1,000,000 |
| | D) | tens of millions |
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Upon exploring Rhode Island the Italian navigator, Giovanni de Verrazzano, noted that the native people resembled: |
| | A) | Europeans. |
| | B) | Australians. |
| | C) | Asians. |
| | D) | None of the above. |
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What is the name of the body of water that separates the ‘Old World’ and the ‘New World?’ |
| | A) | Sahul |
| | B) | Wallace Trench |
| | C) | Sunda |
| | D) | Bering Strait |
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What do anthropologists need to know to determine when people first entered the Americas from Siberia? |
| | A) | When was the Bering Strait exposed and open for travel? |
| | B) | When was eastern Siberia first inhabited? |
| | C) | What is the age of the earliest New World sites? |
| | D) | All the above. |
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Which of the following is the name of the stone blade exhibiting a fluted point on both faces and associated with extinct elephants? |
| | A) | Gravettian |
| | B) | Clovis |
| | C) | Folsom |
| | D) | Lapita |
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What is the name of the lithic technology seen in the Arctic and consisting of wedge-shaped cores, micro-blades, bifacial knives and burins? |
| | A) | Denali Complex |
| | B) | Clovis |
| | C) | Folsom |
| | D) | Nenana Complex |
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Clovis point have been found in: |
| | A) | Canada. |
| | B) | Mexico. |
| | C) | the continental United States. |
| | D) | All the above. |
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Which of the following is the Pleistocene ice mass in North America centered in the Rocky Mountains? |
| | A) | Cordilleran |
| | B) | Laurentide |
| | C) | Beringia |
| | D) | McKenzie Corridor |
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What is the name of the proposed route of safe passage between the farthest-west extent of the Laurentide ice field and the farthest-east extent of the Cordilleran glacier? |
| | A) | Beringia |
| | B) | Wallace Trench |
| | C) | McKenzie Corridor |
| | D) | Sundaland |
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