The First People

How did people migrate out of Africa?

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

Which statement best summarizes the relationship between farming and the growth of towns?

Wild herds of animals are an example of domestication

Early people learned about fire from rubbing two rocks together

Which of the following best defines a society?

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

"Upright Man" is also known as

What best describes the advancements of the New Stone Age?

What is the scientific name for modern humans?

The Ice Ages led to people migrating to all parts of the world

The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans is called...

The time before written history is known as

What is a Megalith?

Why did people need to learn to make clothes and build shelters after migrating from Africa?

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

Earliest ancestors of humans were known as

What contributed most to early people's ability to produce food?

Scientists divide the Stone Age into three periods based on language

What is the name of the first Stone Age?

What is the Neolithic Revolution?

A time of long periods of freezing weather

The Stone Age is divided into ___ time periods based on the tools used.

The most important development of the early Stone Age was the ability to communicate through art

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

Why is it important that archaeologists & anthropologists study ancient bones?

to move

famous megalith

Which archaeologist discovered bones in East Africa in 1959 that belonged to hominids?

Tools became more complex during the Middle Stone Age

Which of the following define hominid?

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

The first human-made shelters were called...

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

In prehistoric religion, people gathered for ceremonies around megaliths

What was the most important development of the Stone Age?

The Middle Stone Age is also called the...

Australopithecus is known as

Which of the following happened first?

Relatives who lived in the past are known as

Mesolithic Era tools were more complex than Paleolithic Era Tools. Which answer supports this?

"Lucy" was discovered in 1974 by

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

Historians call the time before writing the Stone Age

To divide among a group of people

Which of the following best describes a land bridge?

People made cloth and clothing from all of the following except...

Another name for the Paleolithic Era is the New Stone Age

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

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