Question

1. How the lifestyle of Homo habilis is different from earlier hominids?

2. Zhoukoudian is located in which country was inhabited by which species of hominid and provides evidence of what unique kinds of behavior?

3. Traditional views have portrayed Neandertal in a very "uncomplimentary" fashion. What does modern scientific evidence now say about the behavior of this kind of individual?

4. What is unique about how Neandertal tools were made that sets them apart from other stone tools?

5. The traditional explanation of the subsistence strategy for the earliest inhabitants of the New World has been one nearly solely focused on Pleistocene mega fauna. What does the archaeological evidence show from sites such as Monte Verde in Chile?