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Question 31. Cultural anthropology was one of the two classical divisions of anthropology. What was the other one?
  1.    Physical Anthropology
  2.    Social anthropology
  3.    Urban anthropology
  4.    Variated Anthropology
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Physical Anthropology
Answer: (a).Physical Anthropology
Question 32. In 1924, Raymond Dart discovered a fossil which he called "Austral pithecanthropus Africans". What is the meaning of the name?
  1.    The ape man from southern Africa
  2.    The man from the Mesolithic Age
  3.    The old man from Australia
  4.    None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> The ape man from southern Africa
Answer: (a).The ape man from southern Africa
Question 33. Which fossil was proved to be a hoax?
  1.    Neanderthal Man
  2.    Cro-Magnon Man
  3.    Piltdown Man
  4.    Kennewick Man
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Piltdown Man
Answer: (c).Piltdown Man
Question 34. What does the prefix "pithe" refer to?
  1.    Mammal
  2.    Ape
  3.    Invertebrate
  4.    Human
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Ape
Answer: (b).Ape
Question 35. Who is considered to be the father of anthropology?
  1.    Louis Leakey
  2.    Franz Boas
  3.    Robert Bloom
  4.    Eugene Dubois
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Franz Boas
Answer: (b).Franz Boas
Question 36. What does the suffix "lith" refer to (as in Neolithic Age)?
  1.    Early tools
  2.    Copper
  3.    Iron
  4.    Stone
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Stone
Answer: (d).Stone
Question 37.
What does the term "Homo erectus" mean?
  1.    A hominid
  2.    A man who is able to stand upright
  3.    A man who can make tools
  4.    A creature that has the ability to reason
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> A man who is able to stand upright
Answer: (b).A man who is able to stand upright
Question 38. What does the Latin prefix "homo" refer to?
  1.    Mankind
  2.    Sameness
  3.    Study of
  4.    Science
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Mankind
Answer: (a).Mankind
Question 39. What does the Greek prefix "anthro" refer to?
  1.    Mankind
  2.    study of
  3.    Science
  4.    Sameness
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Mankind
Answer: (a).Mankind
Question 40.
The earliest known European example of Homo sapiens was discovered in 1868 and was given what name?
  1.    Australopithecus
  2.    Neanderthal Man
  3.    Peking Man
  4.    Cro Magnon Man
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Cro Magnon Man
Answer: (d).Cro Magnon Man

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