Statistics for The Prehistoric Ages

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The first evidence of Homo sapiens, modern humans, is from which continent?	Africa	93%
Who came up with the theory of human evolution?	Charles Darwin	86%
What was the Neolithic Age?	New Stone Age	83%
What is the name of the most famous Australopithecus, a fossilized skeleton from Ethiopia dated to 3.2 million years ago?	Lucy	77%
Which of the following Stone Age subgroups is most closely associated with human agricultural development?	Neolithic	75%
Archaeologists traditionally divide prehistory into three main periods, named after the main technologies used at the time. What age came the last?	Iron Age	73%
Homo sapiens neanderthals were named after the Neander valley, where their remains were found. In which country is that valley?	Germany	66%
What is the oldest race in human lineage?	Australopithecus	65%
Cro-Magnons were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe. Where were their remains found?	France	55%
On which island Dutch physician Eugene Dubois located the first examples of what he called 'Pithecanthropus erectus', also known as Homo erectus in 1891?	Java	52%
What is the name of Venus figurine estimated to have been made in 30,000 BCE?	Venus of Willendorf	45%
Around what year the prehistoric period comes to an end?	3000 B.C.	41%