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CHAPTER 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS
1.
Human-made objects:
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These people study fossils:
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What do anthropologists study?
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These are evidence of early life preserved in rocks:
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This is the term meaning a people’s unique way of life:
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Term for before the invention of writing:
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An excavated site is called a what?
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What are the three components of culture?
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Who found footprints found in 1978?
10. Where were these footprints found?
11. Who made these footprints?
12. Humans and australopithecines are called what?
13. Who found Lucy and why was she named Lucy?
14. Name three theories why australopithecines began walking upright?
15. What did the early hominids develop?
16. What are the two time periods of the Stone Age (scientific name):
17. What are the years of the Paleolithic time period?
18. What are the years of the Neolithic time period?
19. Other than new, give another name for the neolithic Stone Age:
20. During which time period did people learn to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops and raise
animals?
21. These lived 40,000 – 8000 BC, were found in Europe, brain size of 1400, created art, fully modern man?
22. Which group emerged before the australopithecines vanished:
23. Where did Mary Leakey discover hominid fossil?
24. Which group supposedly used tools to cut meat and crack open bones:
25. Which goop developed technology?
26. Homo erectus means what?
27. Term for ways of applying knowledge, tools and inventions to meet needs:
28. They were the first to use fire:
29. Who may have developed the beginnings of spoken language?
30. Which groups may have made objects, places, animals and plants and exchanged ideas?
31. Many scientists believe that Homo erectus eventually developed into whom?
32. Homo sapiens means what?
33. Neanderthals were found where?
34. Where was evidence found to support the thought that Neanderthals held religious rituals:
35. 40,000 years ago these prehistoric figures emerged:
36. They migrated from North Africa to Europe and Asia.
37. They planned their hunts:
38. Men and women of the Old Stone Age were mobile people who followed their food source. They were
called these:
39. Give two other names for the New Stone Age:
40. List two main reasons for the agricultural revolution:
41. What was the early farming method used to clear land and what did it do to the soil?
42. Where was the iceman found and what is his nickname?
43. How did Otzi’s finding change history?
44. What is it called when one tames animals:
45. Where was the birthplace of agriculture?
46. This was an agricultural village found meaning forked mound:
47. What caused specialization?
48. List the five components of a civilization:
49. What is the development of skills in a specific kind of work:
50. What is another term for skilled workers who make goods by hand?
51. What is a long-lasing pattern of organization in a community:
52. Where were professional record keepers:
53. What three things were need to keep records and who recorded them?
54. Where did the Bronze Age start?
55. What does Mesopotamia mean?
56. What two rivers is Mesopotamia located in?
57. What method was used for trading goods in Ur?
58. A pyramid shaped monument:
59. People from Sumer were called: