Assignment: Neanderthals anthro 101 pqw

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Answer the following questions based on the reading from Chapter 11. You must provide detailed answers to each question for full credit. Try your best to summarize the information and write what you have learned in your own words. Any text that you directly copy needs to be in quotation marks, but copying will not be enough to get a high grade (see the grading rubric below). For full credit, you should either explain the information in your own words, or if you copy any text, you should also provide your own interpretation.

Please re-copy each question and number your answers to correspond with the question numbers. Answer in full sentences and make sure to DESCRIBE when asked to do so. Please submit your answers directly into the submission box. To avoid losing any of your work due to technical problems, I strongly suggest that you record your answers in a word or text file and then paste them into the submission box when you are finished.

1. Where and when did Neanderthals live? Describe the environment that they lived in.
2. Describe the physical features of Neanderthals.
3. How were Mousterian tools different from Acheulean tools? Describe what Neanderthal did with Mousterian tools.
4. Describe how Neanderthals hunted. Aside from meat, what else did Neanderthals eat? How do scientists know?
5. Describe some of the injuries that have been found on Neanderthal remains. What do injuries found on Neanderthal skulls tell us about their lives? What evidence do we have that Neanderthals cared for sick and/or disabled members of their group?
6. Describe what scientists know about Neanderthal behavior (use examples of specific evidence in your answer).
7. Describe what researchers know about Middle Stone Age tools in Africa (these tools were used by Homo heidelbergensis and early Homo sapiens).
8. Explain the major arguments given for the disappearance of Neanderthals.

You will be graded using the following rubric: