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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.
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