While Excavating a Cave in Spain,you Stumble Across a Skeleton

question 33

Multiple Choice

While excavating a cave in Spain,you stumble across a skeleton that looks to be human.Upon closer examination,you find that the bones are disproportionately short and thick,and the skull has massive brow ridges.Carefully arranged around the skeleton are a variety of stone tools.You have most likely found the remains of

• A) a Cro-Magnon.
• B) an australopithecine.
• C) an early hominin.
• D) a Neandertal.
• E) a prosimian.

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