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Elaborate Palaeolithic statuettes depicting women with grossly exaggerated hips and breasts are known as _______.

A) Shield maidens
B) Sky mothers
C) Venuses
D) Shamans

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Based on DNA analysis, Neanderthals were bred out of existence and absorbed into which much larger population?

A) Cro Magnon
B) Denisovan
C) Periogordian
D) Sumerian

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The first clear evidence of warfare comes from an Egyptian site known by what name?

Which of the following, according to scholars, were among the purposes of megalithic constructions?

Initially, all human societies made use of what kind of economy?

Which of the following is not an ancestor of fully modern humans?

The most ubiquitous (because they're virtually indestructible) artifacts found at archaeological sites are ______.

Which of the following is one of the earliest hunter-gathering peoples known to have cultivated grain?

The copper axe reconstructed here would, historically, have been manufactured in which of the following periods?

The most important hand tool used by humans for the majority of the human past was the ______.

An archaeological "_______" is a group of features relating to technology, decorative style, settlement type, economic basis, and ritual symbols that characterize particular populations bounded by space and time.

Geographically speaking, when we speak of ancient "western" civilization, we are speaking of the cultures of which peoples?

The area enclosed by the dotted line is commonly referred to as _______.

Some scholars believe that _______ are a form of proto-writing.

The extinction, begun during the Pleistocene Epoch, of large numbers of plants and animals, including such large mammals as the wooly mammoth and the cave bear in Europe, is known as the _______.

What are the two primary categories of historical evidence?

Which of the following is not the name of a southern, western, or northern European culture between 4500 to 2000 BCE?

The Neolithic village of ______, on a thirty-acre site in southern Anatolia, was one of the first villages to show evidence of fortification.

The Linear Pottery Culture and the Vinča Culture belong to which historical period?

What are the dates of the Neolithic Age?