Q 01/05

In which part of France are the Lascaux cave paintings?

A) Brittany

B) The Dordogne

C) Provence

D) The Ardennes

Answer · why

B) The Dordogne

The Dordogne: four teenagers found Lascaux near Montignac in September 1940, but the crowds that followed damaged its painted horses, aurochs and deer...

Q 02/05

What technological development marks the end of the Stone Age?

A) The domestication of horses

B) The smelting of copper

C) The firing of pottery

D) The invention of the wheel

Answer · why

B) The smelting of copper

The smelting of copper is the usual dividing line. Copper had been hammered into ornaments for thousands of years first, so the metal itself was not n...

Q 03/05

The Stone Age is the first period of which archaeological scheme?

A) The three-age system

B) The four-stage theory

C) The Ages of Man

D) The geological time scale

Answer · why

A) The three-age system

The three-age system orders prehistory into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. It began as a curator's way of arranging a museum's undated antiquities in se...

Q 04/05

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen divided prehistory by tool material while arranging a museum in which city?

A) Stockholm

B) Copenhagen

C) Helsinki

D) Amsterdam

Answer · why

B) Copenhagen

Copenhagen: Thomsen, a merchant's son put in charge of the royal antiquities in 1816, laid the finds out by material and led visitors round himself to...

Q 05/05

What are the three divisions of the Stone Age, in order?

A) Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

B) Neolithic, Mesolithic, Paleolithic

C) Lower, Middle, Upper Pleistocene

D) Archaic, Classical, Formative

Answer · why

A) Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic: old, middle and new stone, from the Greek lithos. The middle term was slotted in a year after the other two were c...