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The Stone Age

Can you answer these questions about the era from the invention of stone tools until about 5,000 years ago?
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c. 3300 BC
The Stone Age comes to an end in with the start of this
metallic age in the Near East
Bronze Age
c. 3300 BC
Prehistory ends and history begins with the invention of...
Written language
c. 3400 BC
The earliest evidence of this Egyptian burial practice
Mummification
c. 5000 BC
The Vinča culture, in modern-day Serbia, are the first people to turn
ore into metal. The metal that they refine is ...
Copper
c. 8000 BC
This crop, at the time resembling a tall grass, is first domesticated
in modern-day Mexico
Maize
c. 9000 BC
Rising sea levels cause this land bridge between Asia and
North America to disappear
Bering
Land Bridge
c. 9500 BC
Göbekli Tepe, in this modern-day country, is the site of the world's
earliest known monumental constructions
Turkey
c. 9700 BC
This "age" ends after global temperatures increase 10° Celsius from
where they were in 20,000 B.C.
Ice Age
c. 10,000 BC
This part of the world is the first have permanent cities and agriculture
Fertile Crescent
c. 10,000 BC
This later part of the Stone Age begins with the inventions described above
Neolithic
c. 10,000 BC
This 6 meter long South American animal goes extinct, with evidence
of human hunting
Giant sloth
c. 12,500 BC
This desert experiences a wet period which would last 8,000 years.
Lake Megachad grows to nearly the size of the Caspian Sea.
Sahara
c. 33,000 BC
These close human relatives go extinct, with the last individuals
living in modern-day Spain
Neanderthals
c. 50,000 BC
Humans first arrive on this land mass, likely causing the extinction
of the marsupial lion and many other megafauna
Australia
c. 153,000 BC
This woman is born, the latest common ancestor of all humans alive today
Mitochondrial
Eve
c. 2 mil BC
This "upright man" species evolves in Africa, later spreading throughout
Asia and Europe
Homo erectus
c. 3.3 mil BC
This earliest part of the Stone Age begins with the first use of
stone tools by hominids
Paleolithic
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24 Comments
cathlete
+23
Level 75
Sep 13, 2023
This is all I can think of when I hear lake Megachad
Quizmaster
+17
Level ∞
Sep 13, 2023
Pretty sure that's a picture of Lake Gigachad.
Astana
+2
Level 51
Oct 4, 2023
Wha..............?
toowise
+8
Level 78
Sep 13, 2023
I got more right than I expected, I must be older than I thought.
Astana
+2
Level 51
Oct 4, 2023
lol
Qikiq
+6
Level 87
Sep 13, 2023
Just got my first confetti! Ridiculously pleased by that new feature.
Loyal
+1
Level 66
Sep 13, 2023
same, is that for gettin 5/5?
Dimby
+1
Level 78
Sep 13, 2023
I got it for the first time on a spotlighted quiz, so it must just be for getting them all right.
sumguy
+3
Level 85
Sep 13, 2023
For the curious, Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living humans, is estimated to have lived 200,000 to 300,000 years ago.
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Sep 21, 2023
Yes indeed. And that is only possible because Mitochondrial Eve is merely the most recent common ancestor in a strict matrilineal line - not our most recent common ancestor.
TheForsakenFurby
+1
Level 74
Mar 18, 2024
But... she lived more recently than 200,000 years ago. Doesn't that make her our most recent common ancestor, since all living humans have her as an ancestor and Y-chromosomal Adam lived further in the past?
Lamarck
+2
Level 71
Sep 14, 2023
Please accept 'Palaeo'-lithic
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 14, 2023
Okay
Kearsarge
+4
Level 68
Sep 14, 2023
The Old Copper Complex of the Great Lakes region considerably predates the Vinca Culture, with the first examples of the culture, and the copper tools associated with it appearing at around 7,500 BC. Granted, the Old Copper Complex was working with effectively pure native copper nuggets, and were just cold-smelting it into shape, considerably easier than processing it from ore and requiring way less in the way of actual metallurgical knowledge, but they were directly working with the metal well before the Vinca culture did.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Sep 14, 2023
Interesting. The quiz has been changed to maintain technical accuracy.

I actually own a beautiful piece of native copper from Michigan.

Jango
+2
Level 64
Sep 15, 2023
By 'mummification', do you mean 'embalment'? And if so, why is it not an accepted answer?
Jato
+1
Level 71
Sep 18, 2023
I wish that quizzes could be manually reordered in series, particularly this one, because since this series’ quizzes are not in chronological order, such as the AD and BC quizzes alternating and the Stone Age being at the bottom, right after the 21st century. It really messes with my OCD and for quiz takers just trying to find the next quiz chronologically in the series.
Confabulously
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Level 78
Sep 20, 2023
Technically, we're still in the current ice age, because permanent continental ice caps remain on Greenland and Antarctica. The start of the Holocene ~10k years ago was the end of the last glacial maximum, and the beginning of the current interglacial period.

Using the term ice age as it's used in this quiz is super common and universally understood, so it's up to QM whether that level of "um, actually" even matters.

dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Sep 21, 2023
The Mitochondrial Eve clue is wrong. Mitonchondrial Eve is the last woman we all descend from in *strictly matrilineal line*, which means only through women. There may have been (and very probably have been) any number of much more recent common ancestors who we descend from through both men and women. This is also why "Y-chromosomal Adam" is not the mate of Mitochondrial Eve.
TheForsakenFurby
+1
Level 74
Mar 18, 2024
Ohhh okay, I think I see what you're saying. So, for example, there could be a man who lived 40,000 years ago, who had two daughters. One of those daughters migrated far away. Today, everyone would be descended from at least one daughter, but neither daughter is an ancestor to everyone. But we wouldn't know of this man because his genes weren't passed down through a Y-chromosome, and because neither of his daughters are mitochondrial eves?

Are you confident that people like this very probably exist just because it's more likely for someone with multiple children to have at least one child of another sex rather than all children of their own sex? Or is there something else I'm missing?

Titipounamu
+1
Level 43
Jun 2, 2024
Yeah it's completely implausible that the most recent female line ancestor would also be the most recent ancestor. The odds of that are insanely low.

Also Mitochondrial Eve lived long before Y chromosome Adam, because male lines tend to die long before female ones. Males are more likely to have many or no children, whereas females are likely to have a smaller but non-zero number of children. Therefore it took longer for all the other female lines to die out leaving Mitochondrial Eve's as the remaining one.

Aoto327
+1
Level 73
Dec 1, 2023
16/17, I didn’t know “maize” (or “corn”).
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Jan 26, 2024
Lake Megachad 😂
shnanogans
+1
Level 48
Jan 26, 2024
Teosinte should also be accepted for the maize one!
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