Human Origins

Question 0

Transformation

Answer 0

To change

Question 1

Define Advent

Answer 1

Prior/before

Question 2

Sedentary

Answer 2

Still

Question 3

Sequence

Answer 3

In order

Question 4

What was the Paleolithic era also called?

Answer 4

The old Stone Age

Question 5

What were people in he Paleolithic era?

Answer 5

Hunter-gatherers and nomads

Question 6

What are nomads?

Answer 6

People who move around-

Question 7

Where did all human race begin?

Answer 7

East Africa

Question 8

How long ago did the human race begin?

Answer 8

100,000 to 400,000 years ago

Question 9

Where did early humans migrate (in order)?

Answer 9

Africa->Eurasia->Australia-> and the Americas

The world was Pangea

Question 10

How did early people get to America?

Answer 10

An ice age connected a land bridge

Question 11

What does CE / BCE stand for?

Answer 11

Before common era and common era (not in that order)

Question 12

Characteristics of Paleolithic Era?

Answer 12

• Nomadic
• invented first tools and weapons (made of stone)
• learned how to make fire
• lived in small groups (clans)
• developed an oral language
• created “cave art”

Question 13

What does Paleolithic mean?

Answer 13

Means “old” and early Stone Age

Question 14

What was the main factor needed to change or shift from Paleolithic to Neolithic?

Answer 14

Agriculture

Question 15

What is domestication

Answer 15

The taming of animals

Question 16

What are methods used for dating artifacts?

Answer 16

Carbon 14.
Geolayering
Crop yield

Question 17

Paleolithic

Answer 17

• Nomadic
• invented first tools and weapons made of stone
• learned to make fire
• lived in small clans
• developed oral language
• created cave art

Question 18

Neolithic era

Answer 18

• developed agriculture
• domesticated animals
• used advanced tools
• permanent settlements
• made pottery
• developed weaving skills

Question 19

When did Homo sapiens emerge?

Answer 19

Emerged in Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago

Question 20

Where did Homo sapiens migrate? (In order)

Answer 20

Africa-> Eurasia-> Australia-> Americas

Question 21

How did Homo sapiens get their food

Answer 21

Hunter gatherers

Question 22

What is an archaeologist?

Answer 22

Studies past cultures by studying fossils and artifacts

Question 23

Fossils

Answer 23

Hair bones etc

Question 24

Artifacts

Answer 24

Tools clothes etc

Question 25

Where is Stonehenge

Answer 25

England

Question 26

Where is Aleppo

Answer 26

Syria -

Question 27

Catal huyuk

Answer 27

Turkey Anatolia

Question 28

What is ‘prehistory’

Answer 28

The time before writing

Question 29

When did the agricultural revolution occur?

Answer 29

During the Neolithic era

Question 30

What are the three types of hominids?

Answer 30

Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
- Neanderthal
- cro magnon

Question 31

What did Louis and Mary Leakey do?

Answer 31

In the mid-1970s Mary Leakey an archaeologist, led an expedition and Laetoli in Tanzania. In 1978 they found prehistoric footprints resemblance humans. They found footprints made by an “australopithecine”

Question 32

How long did the Paleolithic age last?

Answer 32

It lasted from about 2.5 million BC to 8000 BC

Question 33

The new Stone Age or the Neolithic age began approximately when?

Answer 33

8000 BC and ended approximately 3000 BC