Human Evolution & Culture

Question 1

hominids

Answer 1

earliest ancestors of human

Question 2

paleolithic age

Answer 2

old stone age
made tools
hunters and gatherers
nomadic

Question 3

what is in stage 1 of the paleolithic age?

Answer 3

hominids – two legged primates

• -includes humans
• • australopithecines
• -an appausable thumb

Question 4

what is in stage 2 of the paleolithic age?

Answer 4

homo habilis – man of skills

• -stone tools
• -found shelter
• • found cave paintings

Question 5

stage 3 of paleolithic age?

Answer 5

homo erectus – upright human being

• • bipedalism
• -larger and primitive tools (primitive tech)
• -first to use fire

Question 6

stage 4 of paleolithic age?

Answer 6

homo sapiens – wise human being

• -neanderthals
• • cro magnons

Question 7

what are neanderthals

Answer 7

• -1st skull of neanerthal man
• • clothes out of animal skins
• -lived in caves and tents

Question 8

stage 5 of paleolithic age?

Answer 8

cro magnons– homo sapiens sapiens (wise wise humans_

Question 9

neolithic

Answer 9

new stone age

Question 10

gradual shift from..

Answer 10

nomadic lifestyle to hunting and gathering

Question 11

the agricultural revolution

Answer 11

developed independently in different parts of the world

Question 12

homo sapiens fossils

Answer 12

• -human evolution based on culture

- - increased brain size in hominids

Question 13

prosimians

Answer 13

–oldest living primates (small and nocturnal)

Question 14

anthropoids

Answer 14

• -human like primates
• new world monkeys
• old world monkeys
• hominoids

Question 15

hominoids

Answer 15

hominids
great apes
living and extinct humans