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Archeology
Question | Answer |
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What are archaeologists? | Scientists who learn about early people. |
What do archaeologists do? | They dig up evidence like bones and objects. |
What does the evidence that archaeologists dig up help with? | to learn about people from the past. |
What do anthropologists do? | They use what archaeologists dig up to study culture. |
What is an artifact? | a human made object. |
What is a fossil? | Remains of once living things. |
What is the biggest challenge about fossils? | Finding the age of the fossil. |
Where are the remains of the earliest humans found? | Found in Africa. |
What is the name that means walked on 2 feet? | Hominid. |
What is the oldest human? | Australopithecus. |
When did Australopithecus live? | 4.5 million years ago. |
Where were the first fossil remains found? | East Africa. |
What does Homo Habillis mean? | Man Of Skill. |
When did Homo Habillis's live? | 2.5 milling years ago. |
What where Homo Habills's the first to do? | First to use stone tools to cut meat and crack open bones. |
What does Homo Erectus mean? | Upright Human. |
When did Homo Erectus's live? | 1.6 million years ago. |
What were Homo erectus's first to use? | Fire. |
What 5 things did Homo Erectus's use fire for? | Warmth,Protection,Improved Food Source,Physical Change, and Light. |
True or False Homo Erectus's never moved out of Africa. | False. |
True or False Homo Erectus's did not live in houses or villages. | True. |
What did Homo Erectus's learn how to do together? | Teamwork. |
What does Homo Sapiens mean? | Wise Human. |
What 4 things did Homo Sapiens learn to do? | Develop simple culture,buried their dead , create cave paintings, and make sharper more and complex tools |
What were the 3 sub-groups of the homo sapiens? | 1. Neanderthal Man- who was the earliest and most primitive group. 2. Cro-Magnon Man- First actual modern looking human. 3. Homo Sapiens Sapiens - name of todays humans. |
What did Louis and Mary find in 1960 in East Africa? | Homo Habillis. |
What did Donald Johnson find in 1974? | "Lucy" an Australopithecus fossil. |
In 2002 what did they find? | a hominid skull that was 6-7 million years old. |
What is The Stone Age? | a period of history. |
When did the stone age begin? | When hominids first made and use stone tools. |
What are the 3 parts that the stone age is broken up in to? | 1. Paleolithic Age 2. Mesolithic Age 3. Neolithic Age. |
When was the Paleolithic age? | 2.5 million years ago - 8000 B.C |
What does Paleo mean? | Means old. |
What does lithic mean? | Stone. |
What is the Paleoithic stone age also know as? | Old Stone Age. |
What did people make and use in the Paleolithic stone age? | People made and use simple stone tools. |
When was the Mesolithic Age? | 10,000 B.C - 6,000 B.C |
What does meso mean? | meso means middle. |
What did the Mesolithic Age server as? | A bridge between Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. |
What 2 things happen in the Mesolithic Age? | People began to develop language and control fire. |
What 4 things did they develop in the Mesolithic Age? | Needles,thread,harpoons, and spear throwers. |
When was the Neolithic stone age? | 8000 B.C - 3000 B.C |
What does Neo mean? | Neo means new. |
What is the neolithic age know as? | Tbe new stone age (NSA) |
What only lived in this period? | Homo Sapiens. |
What 3 things did people began to do? | Grow crops, raise animals, settle in villages. |
What 2 things greatly change peoples lives? | Farming and Agriculture. |