Chapter 1 Early People

Which were adaptations that were needed for Homo Sapiens to over come the Ice Age.

 A period of time characterized by the development of agriculture and permanent settlements

_______ lived by hunting small animals and gathering plants.

Which describes one way that early hunter-gatherers got food?

_______ study the physical materials of Earth, such as soil and rock.

How did the world change when modern humans populated it?

A _______ occurs when people leave their homeland to live somewhere else.

____ are objects made and used by humans such as tools, pottery, or weapons.

What do human fossils contain?

Why did modern humans have to adapt?

Elements of _____ include social and family organization and beliefs and values.

Choose all of the following that show Ice Age changes that affected Homo Sapiens

What are geologists able to tell archaeologists about fossisl?

tall athletic individuals with a complex language, burial rituals and made art and music

lasted from the time of the earliest stone tools to the invention of tools, fire, and language

Many people were _____ who moved from place to place with the seasons.

A ____ would be made up of 25-50 people with a common ancestor.

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Early humans believed the natural world was filled with spirits, known as ______

How do nomads live?

Homo Sapiens believed that there were spirits in the animals that they hunted. 

Which phrase defines the time called prehistory?

To survive and grow, early people developed ____ to meet their needs and wants.

Over many thousands of year, early humans began to ________ almost every land.

The oldest skeletal remains were found in Asia

cultural group had larger brains, cultures, simple language, were the first to bury their dead

"Lucy" was approximately 3.5 feet tall.

What does an archaeologist study?

Which is a kind of technology used by Stone Age humans?

__ is the study of people's behavior, where they're from, and how they differ.

Each time early people moved, they had to _____ to their new environment.

What is the term for the belief that spirits fill the natural world ?

A tooth can be used to show you the size and structure of a human's body.  

____ is the time before written records, which dates to about 5,000 years ago.

group made up of men hunting,women gathering, simple stone tools, use of fire and small bands

What was the main unit of Stone Age culture?

Which group was the first to bury its dead?

_____ may include plants, feathers, bones, and even footprints.

_____ study human life in the past and examine things they left behind.