Chapter 2 The Stone Age and Early Cultures

to move

Which of the following best defines a land bridge?

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

a relative who lived in the past

Using large animals greatly improved the ability to people to ___.

process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans

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

Animal skins were ___ to help keep people warm.

Which statement best describes what life was like in the Mesolithic Era?

By 9000 B.C., people lived on all continents except ___ 

Which of the following defines hominid?

Scientists believe language developed in the Stone Age for all the following reasons except

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

To study prehistory, historians rely on the work of archaeologists and ____

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

Simple tools like ___ were used for about 2 million years.

People began to build permanent homes using materials such as wood, stone, and even ___

The Middle Stone Age is also called the 

type of bone used to build early homes

famous megaliths

a time of long periods of freezing weather

The work of archaeologists and anthropologists who study ancient bones is important because it 

Which of the following best defines society?

People made cloth and clothing from all of the following except

to divide among a group of people

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

Archaeologists who believed that bones found in East Africa in 1959 belonged to hominids

Gathering of wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts was mostly done by ____

Land bridges allowed for ____ Age people to move around the world.

What supports the idea that tools in the Middle Stone Age were smaller and more complex?

What effect did the ice ages have on early humans?

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

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

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

Groups of ____ appeared about 3 million years ago.

Which of the following happened first?

Which of the following defines Homo erectus?

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

What is the scientific name for modern humans?

Name means "southern ape"

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

Which of the following is NOT part of domesticating animals in the New Stone Age?

Which of the following best defines a megalith?

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

farming

Which summarizes why people learned how to make clothes & build shelters after leaving Africa?

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

Which of the following statements best summarizes the relationship between farming and towns?

Which statement best defines the Neolithic Revolution?

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

Which of the following does NOT describe why the early people painted in caves?

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

Historians call the shift from food gathering to food producing the __ Revolution.