Chapter 1: Investigating the Past

Question 1

The horse carved on the spear thrower may be...

Accepted Answer

a good-luck charm, decoration, related to the hunter's name or clan

Question 2

Which vocabulary word means "relating to ceremony"?

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ritual

Question 3

Which vocabulary word means "before written history"?

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prehistoric

Question 4

The clay sculpture of two bison were likely used in a coming-of-age ceremony.

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True

Question 5

Which vocabulary word means "an object made or used by people in the past"?

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artifact

Question 6

Archeologists, historians, and geographers are like detectives because they...

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study evidence, ask questions, form hypotheses, look for clues

Question 7

Paintings of humans are rare in cave art.

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True

Question 8

Paintings of handprints are fairly common in cave art.

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True

Question 9

Caves with paintings thousands of years old have been found all over the world.

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True

Question 10

Cave paintings can show us...

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what people believed, animals that roamed Earth, how people hunted

Question 11

This is one example of a human-made feature that a geographer might study...

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bridge

Question 12

Cave art tools may have included brushes made from moss, fur, and human hair.

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True

Question 13

Cave paintings can help answer questions about how ancient humans lived.

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True

Question 14

This expert studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and human-made features...

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geographer

Question 15

A social scientist studies...

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human society

Question 16

Ancient history concerns the past, from the earliest humans through the first civilizations.

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True

Question 17

Four teenage boys discovered cave paintings in Lascaux, France, on September, 12, _____

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1940

Question 18

Scientists believe cave artists ground colored minerals and mixed them with animal fat or oil.

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True

Question 19

This expert studies and records the past...

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historian

Question 20

This expert studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind...

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archeologist

Questions 20