Statistics for Human Prehistory Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This animal was the first to be domesticated, at least 15,000 years ago	Dog	91%
This early human species, the 'upright man', existed for more than 2 million years	Homo {erectus}	91%
Period of global cooling that ended approximately 11,500 years ago	Last Glacial Period	90%
	Wheat	86%
Three main subdivisions of the Stone Age	{Paleo}lithic	84%
Construction on this stone circle in Great Britain was begun c. 3000 BCE	Stonehenge	84%
	{Neo}lithic	83%
Human species, named after a valley in Germany, that was dominant in Eurasia until around 40,000 years ago	Neanderthals	81%
Eventually, tin was added to the above to create this much harder alloy	Bronze	80%
Human species that evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago	Homo {sapiens}	80%
Humans are thought to have reached the Americas by crossing a land bridge over this passage between present-day Russia and Alaska	Bering Strait	76%
First metal of which there is evidence of smelting	Copper	76%
Agriculture is thought to have first emerged in this region of the Middle East	{Fertile} Crescent	74%
After horses and bison, this large mammal is the third-most frequently depicted animal in prehistoric art	Woolly mammoth	71%
c. 3300 BCE, a man (later nicknamed Ötzi) died in this mountain range and was not discovered until 1991 CE	Alps	68%
Çatalhöyük, a ruined Stone Age settlement in this present-day country, has been described as the world's first city	Turkey	64%
c. 8000 BCE, these two crops were domesticated in Mesopotamia and used to make beer, gruel, and bread	Barley	60%
	Mitochondrial {Eve}	52%
The most recent man and woman from whom all living humans are directly descended are sometimes given these nicknames	Y-chromosomal {Adam}	51%
	{Meso}lithic	44%
An early form of writing known as cuneiform appeared in this Mesopotamian society, marking the beginning of recorded history	Sumer	40%
This stone figurine depicting a woman is one of the earliest surviving prehistoric artworks	{Venus} of Willendorf	33%