Cave Man Quiz
Circle T for True
or F for False
1. T
F In 1908, a Neanderthal was found buried with (and
wearing) a suit of
chain-mail
armor.
2. T
F Less than 100 years ago scientists found a (living)
person who possessed virtually every
feature of
a Neanderthal.
3. T
F Nebraska Man was once used to demonstrate that man
evolved from an ape.
4. T
F For over 40 years, Piltdown Man was used to
demonstrate that man evolved from apes.
5. T
F Piltdown Man was a deliberate hoax that fooled over 500
anthropologists.
6. T
F The evidence for Nebraska Man was a single tooth from a
pig.
7.
The Laetoli fossil footprints were, at one time, said to have been made
by Lucy.
What is Lucy's scientific name? ____________
__________
8.
The Laetoli footprints were probably made by _________ because they
looked just
like ________ footprints.
9.
Why don’t scientists want to acknowledge # 8 above.
_____________________________________________________________
1. List
the three “ape-men” which were used in the Scopes Monkey Trial of
1925 to
convince the media that man evolved from apes.
A. __________________________
B. __________________________
C. __________________________
2.
What type of extant (i.e. living) monkey is able to walk upright ? ___________________
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