Question | Answer |
Five characteristics of a civilization | 1)stable food supply
2)government
3)specialization of labor
4)culture (religion, written language, art, etc)
5)social classes |
domesticate | tame wild animals for human use |
agriculture | the practice of farming |
artifacts | man made objects and tools |
fossils | traces or imprints of the remains of living things
-tells archaeologists information about humans of the past (age, sex, dates of existence, brain size) |
Lucy | species Australopithecus, one of the earliest human ancestors found in Africa |
Sense of community | shown by care of the old and sick |
Neolithic Age | -started with the development of agriculture
-New Stone Age |
Paleolithic Age | -Old Stone Age
-humans used stone for tools
-Homo Habilis through Cro-Magnon |
specialization | specific jobs for different people
-developed after there was a surplus of food |
Communication and the Development of Language | enabled humans to work together, pass on knowledge, share stories of the past |
First to have burial ceremonies | Neanderthal |
First to have evidence of manhood and hunting rituals | Cro-Magnon |
Used 100s of tools for special purposes | Cro-Magnon |
First Artists | Cro-Magnon |
First to use and make fire | Homo Erectus |
First to weave clothing | Modern Humans |
First to have people in art | Modern Humans |
Used fire oven for cooking bread and pottery | Modern Humans |
First to look like us, brain like ours, speak like us | Cro-Magnon |
short and stocky to preserve body heat, heavy eyebrow ridge | Neanderthal |
Advanced farming and hunting tools, eventually metal | Modern Humans |
lived on all continents except Antarctica | Cro-Magnon |
lived on all continents | Modern Humans |
First to use fire for capturing prey, warmth, light, protection, cooking | Homo Erectus |
Organized hunts without weapons | Homo Habilis |
Some lived in caves | Cro-Magnon |