Quiz 1 history Flashcards
Whats the location of the first human ancestors?
East Africa
When did the homo sapiens evolve?
100,000 BC
What was the migration path for homo sapiens?
Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, North America then South America
What did early humans need to survive.
Food, trees, and branchesl.
What was the evolution of modern man from Australopithecus to homo sapiens
Civilization, larger brain, evolving earth, stronger legs.
Key things about developing life in neolithic age.
Agricultrue
Discuss the role of agriculture surplus in tech advances
domestication, surplus
The early humans were nomadic because?
They did not have a stable food source.
Simple tools and skills
Oral langueg, cave art
characteristics of hunter-gathers society
clans, hunter gathers,
what items qualify for artifacts
Anything made by humans.
how is a fossil created
preservation of the remains, molds and casts, compression, permineralization
What is carbon dating?
a method to know when a fossile was created. You have to heat it up.
what tools are used to carbon dating?
Accelerator mass spectrometry. radiation
where is stone hidge
england wilshire
why is stone hindge important
Because it is the only thing from the neolithic age that survived.
what locations did the early humans settle
Mohenjo-daro,(pakistan) Mesopotamia (Iraq), and egypt.
