Question
Carol Mukhopadhyay (“moo-ko-POD-yay”) documented how US immigration law entrenched this misleading term, which today names hunter-gatherers who were ancestors of Yamnaya (“YAM-nuh-yuh”) herders. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this supposed “race” defined by J. F. Blumenbach. The Göttingen school’s 19th-century craniometric studies ranked it above Mongolians and gave it “Hamitic,” “Semitic,” and “Aryan” subdivisions.
ANSWER: Caucasian race [or Caucasoid race or kaukasische; accept Caucasus Mountains, Qafqaz, Kavkaz, or Kavkasioni; accept Caucasus Hunter Gatherers or Caucasian Hunter Gatherers]
[10h] This Georgian site preserved actual Caucasian crania from early Pleistocene (“PLYCE-toh-seen”) hominins. This site’s postcrania, the oldest known outside Africa, display a mosaic of Homo erectus, H. habilis, and H. ergaster features.
ANSWER: Dmanisi (“d’muh-NEE-see”) [accept Dmanisi hominins or Dmanisi skulls or Dmanisi crania]
[10m] Upper Paleolithic Caucasian caves like Bondi help date Europe’s settlement by these humans known from Buran Kaya III in Crimea. Paleoanthropologists contrast this type of phenotypic “modernity” with behavioral modernity.
ANSWER: anatomically modern humans [or early modern humans or AMHs or EMHs; or anatomical modernity or word forms of anatomy]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 86% | 29% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |