Human Origins: The Agricultural Revolution

Question 1

Neanderthal

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Early hominid from Eurasia

Question 2

“Java Man”

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Early hominid from Java

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“Peking Man”

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Early hominid from East Asia

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“Lucy”

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Famous fossil, more than 3 million years old, belonging to the Australopithecus Africanus class of early hominids

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Homo erectus

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Advanced version of hominid with a larger brain

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Homo sapiens

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Modern humans

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Homo floresiensis

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Unique species of hominids from the Island of Flores in Asia, only 3 feet tall

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Bipedalism

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Walking upright on two feet

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“Hunter-gatherer society”

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Main social organization and subsistence strategy for more than 95% of human history

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“Dreamtime”

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Collection of stories and ceremonies in Australia telling the early beginning of occupation during prehistory

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“Clovis culture”

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Prehistoric culture of North America

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“Venus of Willendorf”

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Famous prehistoric female figurine

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“Otzi the Iceman”

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Famous fossil of a prehistoric man found in the European Alps in the 1990s, fully dressed and with all his tools including a bronze axe

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Lascaux

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Prehistoric cave in France dating to the Magdalenian period; Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave

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“Fertile Crescent”

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Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean coast where agriculture was practiced for the first time on a large scale

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Sorghum

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A type of African grain

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Manioc

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Mesoamerican plant

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Catalhuyuk

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Prehistoric farming settlement in Turkey, 7000 BC

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Gobekli-Tepe

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Ceremonial site c. 11k years old, built in Southeastern Turkey, called the “world’s oldest temple”; evidence of early agriculture in the region

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Jericho

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Early settlement in Jordan, first town with defensive wall enclosure

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Banpo

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Ancient fortified village in China close to modern Xian studied by archaeologists last century; it was an early agricultural community displaying great technological innovation

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Patriarchate

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Communities ruled by men

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Matriarchate

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Communities ruled by women

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Paleolithic

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Old stone age (hunter-gatherers)

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Mesolithic

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Middle stone age (transition to agriculture)

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Neolithic

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New stone age (agricultural communities)