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Chapter 1: Investigating the Past
Chapter 1: Investigating the Past
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Introduction to prehistory
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Which question about the past does cave art most help to answer?
What language did people speak?
What did the people look like?
What animals lived in the area?
What did geometric shapes mean?
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What question would be hardest to answer when ancient paintings are found in a cave?
What did people use for paintbrushes?
Why did people paint in the caves?
What type of paint did they use?
What type of art did they create?
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Before written history; before things were written down.
ritual
Prehistoric
artifact
Ancient History
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Relating to a ceremony
ritual
artifact
Ancient History
Prehistoric
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They study the past by examining objects that people left behind.
Archaeologist
Geographer
Historian
Social Scientist
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Which of these activities would an archaeologist most likely do?
examine objects
make maps
read old newspapers
study Earth's features
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What does this ancient spear thrower indicate about the person who may have used it?
This person was a hunter.
This person prayed to animals.
This person was a skilled painter.
This person was very strong.
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What is evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wood structures (scaffolding) to stand on?
Some paintings are too high to be reached from the floor.
The ancient planks are still there.
Many trees grew in the area.
Pictures of the scaffolding have been found.
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How did prehistoric artists deal with uneven surfaces of the cave?
They included uneven surfaces as part of the composition.
They only painted on the even surfaces.
They only painted on uneven surfaces.
They avoided caves with uneven surfaces.
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Which of these is a human-made feature that a geographer might study?
a cave
a road
a spear
a volcano
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How is an archaeologist
similar
to a historian?
They both study artifacts.
They both study written text.
They both are recorders of the past.
They both create maps.
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Recorders of the past; they study artifacts & written documents.
Archaeologist
Social Scientist
Historian
Geographer
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They study features of the earth, both natural & human made.
Social Scientist
Archaeologist
Geographer
Historian
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Social scientists are scholars who study
animal behavior.
dinosaur skeletons.
astronomy.
human society.
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An object made or used by people in the past is called
a ritual.
an artifact.
a document.
a theory.
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This concerns the distant past; from the earliest humans through the first great civilizations.
Ancient History
ritual
Prehistoric
artifact
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What unique challenge does the study of prehistoric history present?
information was not written down
huge amounts of artifacts to analyze
written records that cannot be read
conflicting views in ancient diaries
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Which clue to the past has been found near the artwork displayed in parts of caves?
masks in the shape of birds
prayer books for rituals
lamps for burning animal fat
maps of land nearby
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About how long ago did humans start developing art?
about 2,000-3,000 years ago
about 500-800 years ago
about 2 to 3 million years ago
about 10,000-20,000 years ago
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Why do historians read diaries & letters from the past?
to learn the ancient language
to agree on plans for the future
to find out what happened & why
to compare their ideas of history
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People who study the past are most like
builders.
teachers.
artists.
detectives.
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Why did ancient artists grind different minerals & mix with fat or oil?
to make different color paint
to use the paint in rituals
to make paint dry faster
to find out which paint lasts longest
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Why are handprints found on cave walls very small?
The smallest members of the group stayed home to paint.
The cave ceilings were very low.
The prints were made by children.
People long ago were not as big as people today.
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Which of the following usually do NOT look at artifacts?
historian
archaeologist
detectives
Geographer
