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Advanced Anthropological Chronology

Anthropology

A challenging quiz focusing on specific dates, nomenclature, and numerical data in anthropology.

archaeology human-evolution paleoanthropology

10 Questions Hard Ages 18+ Apr 13, 2026

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1 In what year did Louis and Mary Leakey discover the OH 5 fossil, commonly known as 'Zinjanthropus boisei', at Olduvai Gorge?

A 1952
B 1959
C 1961
D 1964

2 The 'Lucy' fossil (AL 288-1), discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray, represents approximately what percentage of a skeleton?

A 20%
B 40%
C 60%
D 80%

3 Franz Boas published 'The Mind of Primitive Man', a seminal text in American anthropology, in which year?

A 1898
B 1905
C 1911
D 1922

4 The Neanderthal genome project, led by Svante Pääbo, successfully sequenced the first draft of the Neanderthal genome in which year?

A 2006
B 2008
C 2010
D 2012

5 The Homo floresiensis skeletal remains, famously dubbed 'the Hobbit', were discovered in Liang Bua cave in which year?

A 2001
B 2003
C 2005
D 2007

6 Raymond Dart identified the Taung Child, an Australopithecus africanus specimen, based on a fossil discovered in which year?

A 1920
B 1922
C 1924
D 1926

7 The 'Peking Man' fossils (Sinanthropus pekinensis) were excavated from the Zhoukoudian cave system primarily between 1927 and which year?

A 1933
B 1937
C 1941
D 1945

8 Bronisław Malinowski conducted his famous fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, which lasted from 1915 until which year?

A 1916
B 1917
C 1918
D 1919

9 The archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe, which dates back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period, was first surveyed in what year?

A 1963
B 1973
C 1983
D 1993

10 Eugene Dubois discovered the first specimen of Pithecanthropus erectus (Java Man) in what year?

A 1888
B 1891
C 1894
D 1897

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