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Bair-Early Hominids
Question | Answer |
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Type of social scientist who digs up objects and studies artifacts | Archeologist |
Social scientist who studies artifacts and documents | Historians |
Social scientist who studies natural and manmade features | Geographers |
Diaries and letters would be studied by _______________. | Historians |
Bodies of water, land features, manmade roads and city ruins would be studied by | Geographers |
CE means _________________________ (also represented as AD) | Common Era |
BCE means ______________________ (also represented as BC) | Before Common Era |
Remains were found only in the Afar Triangle, Africa | Lucy |
__________ means walked on two feet | biped |
First hominid group that could walk on two feet which allowed them to use their hands to gather food, carry young, protect themselves a little bit | Lucy |
Lived 3-4 million years ago | Lucy |
Lived 1.5-2 million years ago | Handy Man |
Remains were found all over the African continent | Handy Man |
First hominid group to make and use tools of stone | Handy Man |
Several skeleton remains were found in the same place which lead scientists to believe that they lived in ____________ | groups--worked together |
Lived 1.8 million to 200,000 BCE | Upright man |
Remains have been found on the continents of Africa, Asia and Europe | Upright Man |
Their bones were lighter and stronger which allowed them to move from region to region (migrate) | Upright Man |
They were very good walkers and runners | Upright Man |
Made and used complex tools | Upright Man |
First to use fire and build shelter which allowed them to migrate. | Upright Man |
Lived 230,000 to 30,000 years ago | Neanderthals |
Remains were found in Africa, the Near East, Europe and parts of Asia | Neanderthals |
Large brains, skilled toolmakers, hunted in organized groups | Neanderthals |
First hominid group believed to live as a community--cared for each other; burial rituals | Neanderthals |
Lived 35,000-12,000 BCE | Early Modern Humans or Doubly Wise Man |
Remains were found on every continent except for Antarctica | Early Modern Humans/Doubly Wise Man |
Had the best tools, shelter and clothing compared to other hominid groups | Early Modern Humans/Doubly Wise Man |
Safer hunting practices due to the invention of the spear thrower and bow and arrow | Early Modern Humans/Doubly Wise Man |
Possessed the ability to imagine, dream, and communicate | Early Modern Humans/Doubly Wise Man |
Created artwork, sculptures, and musical instruments | Early Modern Humans/Doubly Wise Man |
How did scientists misinterpret evidence associated with Neanderthals? | They found skeletal remains of a Neanderthal that suffered from bone disease and they thought all Neanderthals were hunched over like that until they found additional skeletons. |
Carved images out of bone, clay, flint and ivory | Early Modern Humans or Doubly Wise Man |