Early Humans

Question 1

What are the 3 periods of the stone age?

Answer 1

Paleolithic (old stone age), Mesolithic (middle stone age), Neolithic (new stone age)

Question 2

What is the Paleolithic age?

Answer 2

(old stone age) made crude tools, hunter/gathers, nomadic

Question 3

What is the Mesolithic age?

Answer 3

(middle stone age) better tools (scythe), began harvesting wild wheat and barley, stayed in one place (settlement)

Question 4

What is the Neolithic stone age?

Answer 4

(new stone age) began farming, had crops, tended animals, grinding and polishing tools, looms for weaving

Question 5

What are the 3 s’s?

Answer 5

Settlement, Specialization, Surplus

Question 6

What is Settlement?

Answer 6

• the community wants to stay where they plant crops
  (leads to permanent settlement instead of hunter gathering)
• manipulating the environment (after 6 million years, Neolithic Man alters the environment and it hasn’t stopped since)

Question 7

What is Specialization?

Answer 7

• hunter gatherer communities spend all day hunting, gathering or prepaing for hunting or gathering.
• specialization occurred in tools to do so
• food is supplied by a few, so specialization happens and people become experts at trade (farming, art, military, engineering)
• by the Middle ages, it also becomes their name (Miller)

Question 8

What is surplus?

Answer 8

• farming allows communities to have more food than the need
• specialization allows them to have more material than they need (iron, wood chopping, mining)
• other communities who don’t have enough, want your surplus ,so you build walls and get an army

Question 9

What is evidence?

Answer 9

concrete facts proven by study and scientific methods

- eg Turkana boy had a painful abscess in his jaw

Question 10

What is Theory?

Answer 10

An ideo of what most likely happened, based on evidence
- eg Because Turkana boy’s abscess would have been painful, we know that Homo Erectus must have taken good care of each other for him to have survived.