(SS 6) Chapter 1.1-1.2 Review

Stone tools and fire were forms of technology that allowed early humans to survive and thrive.

What types of artifacts do archaeologists mainly focus on to learn about the earliest humans?

How did the development of complex languages allow Homo sapiens to survive?

Which group appeared in Europe and parts of Asia about 230,000 years ago?

The "Out of Africa" theory answers all the questions about the origins of early humans.

Some archaeologists believe Neanderthals are the first hominins to bury their dead.

What caused many "land bridges" to form around the world?

Stone age hunter-gatherers lived in large groups and would stay in one area.

After the discovery of Homo habilis, what part of the world did scientists focus on to find the origins of humans?

Which of the following is NOT an element of culture?

Homo sapiens will disappear about 28,000 years ago, leaving Neanderthals the remaining hominins in the world.

Which of the following is NOT a method archaeologists use to determine the ages of fossils?

Prehistory is defined as a period of time before written history.

What developed as early people traveled to different parts of the world?

What is the "Out of Africa" theory?

Which of the following was a way humans developed to improve their chances of survival and to meet their needs?

What is the period time when early humans learned how to make tools out of stone?

With more discoveries up until 2009, scientists concluded that humankind began in Southern Asia.

As modern humans migrated, what forced them to evolve and adapt?

How did early humans find food?

What is the study of how human beings behave, how they act, where they came from, and what makes one group different?

Towards the end of the Paleolithic Era, how many groups of larger-brained hominins remained?

Which of the following were early people able to do after learning how to use fire?

What skill allowed Homo sapiens to outlive Neanderthals?

How did forming larger groups allow early people to adapt to the Ice Age?

A group of anthropologists that study human life in the past by examining things that people left behind is called ____.

Which of the following can be a fossil?

As skills improved, Paleolithic hunters were able to turn from hunting small animals to hunting larger animals.