Question
The presence of these organisms’ mitochondrial Clade B in pre-Columbian mummies suggests that the returning settlers are responsible for their prevalence in Western Europe. For 10 points each:
[10h] Date meal and water drove out fleas and what other organisms? The divergence of two subspecies of these organisms around 170,000 years ago has been used to approximate the invention of clothing.
ANSWER: lice [or louse; accept head lice, body lice, and pubic lice; accept Phthiraptera] (The Ebers papyrus records how date meal and water drove out lice; There are also arguments that head and body lice diverged 83,000 years ago.)
[10m] The oldest-known sentence written by this region’s inhabitants was inscribed on an ivory comb from Lachish, which begs it to “root out the lice.” The Book of Numbers describes this region as “flowing with milk and honey.”
ANSWER: Canaan
[10e] Unlike lice, these other ectoparasites are rare in the Old World archaeological record. In the Balkans, people spread bean leaves around their mattresses to impale these blood-sucking parasites at night.
ANSWER: bed bugs [or Cimex; accept Cimicidae] (Bean leaves have trichomes which can impale bed bug legs.)
<KT, Ancient History>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 50% | 63% | 38% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 40% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 50% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 2.50 | 25% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 20% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
| Cambridge B | Warwick A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE B | Imperial B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Southampton | LSE A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Warwick C | Bristol | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |