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The Prehistoric Ages

For roughly 2.5 million years, humans lived on Earth without leaving a written record of their lives.
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1. Archaeologists traditionally divide prehistory into three main periods, named after the main technologies used at the time. What age came the last?
Iron Age ✓
Golden Age ✓
Bronze Age ✓
Stone Age ✓
2. What is the oldest race in human lineage?
Homo erectus ✓
Australopithecus ✓
Homo habilis ✓
Homo sapiens ✓
3. The first evidence of Homo sapiens, modern humans, is from which continent?
Australia ✓
Asia ✓
Africa ✓
South America ✓
4. Homo sapiens neanderthals were named after the Neander valley, where their remains were found. In which country is that valley?
Germany ✓
France ✓
Ethiopia ✓
Tanzania ✓
5. Cro-Magnons were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe. Where were their remains found?
Spain ✓
Croatia ✓
Italy ✓
France ✓
6. What is the name of Venus figurine estimated to have been made in 30,000 BCE?
Venus of Brassempouy ✓
Venus of Milo ✓
Venus of Willendorf ✓
Venus of Monruz ✓
7. What is the name of the most famous Australopithecus, a fossilized skeleton from Ethiopia dated to 3.2 million years ago?
Jane ✓
Eva ✓
Maria ✓
Lucy ✓
8. Which of the following Stone Age subgroups is most closely associated with human agricultural development?
Neolithic ✓
Epipalaeolithic ✓
Mesolithic ✓
Paleolithic ✓
9. On which island Dutch physician Eugene Dubois located the first examples of what he called 'Pithecanthropus erectus', also known as Homo erectus in 1891?
Cuba ✓
Madagascar ✓
Borneo ✓
Java ✓
10. What was the Neolithic Age?
Middle Stone Age ✓
Old Stone Age ✓
New Stone Age ✓
11. Who came up with the theory of human evolution?
Richard Dawkins ✓
Louis Pasteur ✓
Charles Darwin ✓
Gregor Mendel ✓
12. Around what year the prehistoric period comes to an end?
5000 B.C. ✓
3000 B.C. ✓
100 B.C. ✓
10000 B.C. ✓
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