The Stone Age

The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the societies of southwestern Asia.

Scientists are not exactly sure when or where the first modern humans lived.

Which of the following was not part of the domestication of animals in the New Stone Age?

Which of the following statements best describes what life was like in the Mesolithic Era?

Which continent did humans reach approximately 40,000 years ago?

In Central Asia, where wood was scarce, what did people use to make homes?

What effect did farming have on people in the Stone Age?

The Iceman, discovered in the Alps of Italy in 1991, is also known as

The Middle Stone Age is also called

According to scientists, how did early people migrate out of Africa and into new places?

Scientist believe language developed in the Stone Age for all the following except

When food and water became hard to find, many early societies split apart.

Which of the following defines a hominid?

What is the scientific name for modern humans?

People in the New Stone Age had different relationship to plants and animals due primarily to

Delayed migration into northern Asia was due to low ocean levels.

Hunter-gatherer societies in the Old Stone Age had all of the following except

Hunters and gatherers were people who gathered and ate only fruit, seeds and nuts.

Which of the following best describes the advancements of the New Stone Age?

Which of the following best defines society?

What was important about Donald Johanson's discovery of Lucy in 1974?

One way prehistoric people adapted to their environment was to create tools to process food.

The first human-made shelters, called pit houses, were pits in the ground with roof of branches and leaves.

Which of the following happened first?

The ice ages led to people migrating to all parts of the world.

Early people learned about fire from rubbing two rocks together.

Scientists divide the Stone Age into three periods based on the use of language.

Humans learned how to make fire during the Neolithic Era.

Which of the following best defines a land bridge?

People made cloth and clothing from all of the following except

Which of the following contributed most to early people's ability to produce food?

Tools became more complex during the Middle Stone Age.

Why is the study of ancient bones important to us today?

Historians call the time before writing the Stone Age.

During the Mesolithic Era, people settled in lands.

Which of the following describes the earliest skill that people developed?

Wild herds are an example of the domestication of animals.

Another name for the Paleolithic Era is the New Stone Age.

Which statement best defines the Neolithic Revolution?

Which of the following defines Homo erectus?

The region of the world that was likely occupied last by early humans was

What effect did the ice ages have on early humans?

In prehistoric religion, people gathered for ceremonies around monoliths.

Early humans eventually formed hunter-gatherer societies. What conclusion can you draw from this fact?

What effect did the invention of tools have on early humans?

Which of the following best defines a megalith?

The form of communication called writing invented over 10,000 years ago.