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Early Man1
Ch 1&2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During which of these Eras did farming (agriculture) begin? | Neolithic |
| Study of the past | history |
| Knowledge, beliefs, customs, values | culture |
| Study of the past, based on what people left behind | archaeology |
| People who study history | historian |
| Ancient objects created and used by humans | artifacts |
| Scientists who study artifacts and may dig for them | archaeologist |
| An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event | primary source |
| Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event | secondary source |
| Example of a primary source | diary |
| How did the earliest humans live? | huntergatherer |
| Region of world occupied LAST by early humans | South America |
| Skull from Paleolithic Era would be a | fossil |
| What effect did farming have on people in the Stone Age? | settlements |
| Why may early man have been able to migrate into North and South America during Ice Age? | landbridge |
| farming | agriculture |
| to move | migrate |
| Type of bone used to build early houses | mammoth |
| This name means “southern ape” | Australopithecus |
| Process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans | domestication |
| 5200 year old man under glacier | Ice Man |
| First (oldest) part of the Stone Age | Paleolithic |
| People who hunt animals and gather seeds, fruits, nuts | huntergatherer |
| Time before writing | prehistory |
| An early ancestor of human | hominid |
| On which continent did hominids first live? | Africa |
| define Homo erectus? | upright man |
| Hunter-gatherer societies in the Old Stone Age possessed | religion |