Chapter 1 Test - Early Man - Sep 23

Question 1

Fossil

Answer 1

something that was living

Question 2

artifact

Answer 2

man made object

Question 3

archaeologist

Answer 3

someone who studies fossils and artifacts to learn about the past

Question 4

man started in…

Answer 4

Africa

Question 5

carbon-14

Answer 5

an isotope of carbon that living things absorb when they are alive

Question 6

carbon-14 dating

Answer 6

testing to determine the age of an artifact or fossil by seeing how much carbon-14 I in it

Question 7

austaropithecus

Answer 7

• first
• walked upright
• east africa
• Lucy

Question 8

homo habilis

Answer 8

• second
• “handy man”(had thumbs)
• had tools
• still in africa

Question 9

homo erectus

Answer 9

• third
• first to travel around
• had fire
• had art

Question 10

neanderthals

Answer 10

• fourth
• had more technoliyg
• had burials

Question 11

cr magnons

Answer 11

had more cave art
- followed animals for food
- first modern human

Question 12

cave art

Answer 12

followed animals around, is shown in the art, had no written language

Question 13

stongehenge

Answer 13

a series of stones in a circle in Ireland probably used for some kind of religious ceremony or ritual

Question 14

paleolithic era

Answer 14

• old stone age
• had clothing
• had tools
• nomadic
• hunted and gatherered
• cave paintings

Question 15

neolithic era

Answer 15

• climate warms
• faming starts
• domestication
• more advanced tols
• bigger populations
• had civilizations

Question 16

3 neolithic settlements

Answer 16

cataholyk - turkey
Jericho - west bank
ur

Question 17

5 characteristics of civilization

Answer 17

• advanced cities
• specialized workers
• complex institutions
• record keeping and writing
• advanced technology