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Unit 1 test
things need to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are an archaeologist's primary resources in learning bout prehistoric peoples? | material remains |
| By the New Stone Age, community decisions were probably being made by... | a council of older men |
| What abilities did early humans develop long before others? | The ability to travel across water. |
| What is the main feature that defines civilization? | Cities |
| The skeleton that Donald Johanson discovered and named "Lucy" belonged to the earliest hominid group called... | australopithecines |
| Which hominid group do anthropologists think was the first to use fire? | Homo erectus |
| In early cities, people began to depend on others to fulfill some of their needs because of... | Job specialization. |
| Tools and weapon found in graves of people of the Old Stone Age suggest that the people... | Believed in the afterlife. |
| The only hominids still on Earth today are... | Homo sapiens |
| Early modern humans developed spoken language so they could... | cooperate during the hunt. |
| One difference between early modern humans and Neanderthals is that early modern humans... | spread to all parts of the world. |
| A ruler who conquered many cities and villages created... | an empire. |
| The study of the origins and development of humans and human society... | anthropology |
| the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs... | technology |
| The era in prehistory that dates from at least 2 million B.C. to about 10,000 B.C... | Paleolithic Period |
| One of the first Neolithic villages,,, | Jericho |
| The belief that spirits and forces exist within animals, objects, or dreams... | Animism |
| An early step in the development of writing... | Pictographs |