Prehistory

Question 1

Definition of prehistory

Answer 1

The time before humans learned to write, before all written records.

Question 2

When did pre-history take place?

Answer 2

A few million years ago

Question 3

How did archeologists study this period?

Answer 3

Artifacts, fossils, and bones.

Question 4

Where is the earliest evidence of human origins?

Answer 4

Tanzania
(Country in Eastern Africa)

Question 5

What happened 6-7 million years ago?

Answer 5

Humans split from Great Apes

Question 6

What did archaeologists discover in 1970?

Answer 6

Footprints that look like ours.

Question 7

Hominids definition

Answer 7

Scientist term for people who walk upright. (2 legs)

Question 8

What did a team working in Ethiopia find and when?

Answer 8

-1974
- An almost complete skeleton of an adult female hominid.
- Oldest hominid ever found (3.5 million years old)

Question 9

Early hominids were not fully humans. What was one thing similar and different between them today?

Answer 9

• Walked on 2 legs
• Did not have a thumb

Question 10

What age did humans become more like us?

Answer 10

Stone Age
(2.5 million yrs ago)

Question 11

What did people in the Stone Age do?

Answer 11

• Used stone to cut and eat meat and bones
• polished Stone tools
• Create weapons
• Pottery
• Create a language
• domesticate animals

Question 12

How many years ago did humans start to look like us?

Answer 12

40,000