Unit 1: Intro to Ancient Civilizations

Scholars who study human society

Cave paintings give us information about actual events

Social scientist: Who lived in this place? When did they live here? What were they like?

Cave paintings give us information about how human lived

Studying prehistoric history is difficult because

artifacts can be anything made or used by

Painting of these are less common in cave art

World Theme: disease, population growth, migration, patterns of human settlement

An archaeologist would

World Theme: development of trade, written language improvement, artistic, architectural

World Theme: forms of government, political revolts

Cave paintings give us information about hunting methods

Hunter-gatherers: food

social scientist: study artifacts and documents (diaries, letters)

Social scientist: What happened in the past?

Cave paintings give us information about people's beliefs

Cave paintings give us information about ceremonies or special gatherings

Geographers study natural features of

We know prehistoric cave artists built wood structures to stand on because

World Theme: gender roles, family customs, race, social classes

Social scientist: study artifacts for clues

Prehistoric tools

A prehistoric object comes from a time

People who study history ask questions, study evidence and form hypotheses

Social scientist: create maps

Scholars study cave paintings to learn how humans lived and to study

Farmers: food ____

Having control over ____ one of the most important advances

Social scientist: Where did people live? How did they use their environment to survive?

Cave paintings give us information about hunting rituals

Which is not a world theme

People who study the past are like

Stone Age: Neolithic Age and Paleolithic Age

Cave paintings give us information about the kinds of animals that lived.