Hunter Gatherer Study Guide

Based on all the text you have read which of the following does NOT represent characteristics of ancient hunter-gatherers? (E.K.5)

• They regularly searched for food either by hunting animals or gathering nuts, berries, and plants.
• They lived together in small groups of adults only
• They sometimes migrated with the animals they hunted
• They were always moving from place to place in search of food and shelter

Hunter –gatherers were nomadic.  What does this mean? (EK1)

• To create written language
• To move from place to place and not settle in one place
• To worship many gods
• They raised animals for human use

Which of the following would NOT describe hunter-gatherers? (EK1)

• They hunted and gathered food in order to survive
• They were excellent farmers
• They lived in small groups or clans
• They were nomads

Which of the following shows how hunter-gatherers adapted to their natural environment? (EK2)

• They migrated according to animal and plant food sources
• They found shelter in caves, ditches, or anywhere that would protect them from the environment
• They found shelter in caves, ditches, or anywhere that would protect them from the environment
• All of the above represent ways

Which of the following is NOT  an example of hunter-gatherer technologies? (EK3)

• Fire
• Stone, wood, and bone tools and weapons
  
• Animal skin clothing
  
• Carts

Which of the following best describes cultural differences between male and female hunter-gatherers? (EK4)

• Women were dominant over men in all tribes
• Tribes never moved from one area to another, but located in one place
• Men were mainly responsible for hunting animals, and women gathered fruits, berries, and nuts for food
  
• Stone tools were only of value to the men in a tribe or clan

Which of the following best describes how early hunter-gatherers migrated between Siberia and Alaska and entered the Americas? (EK5)

• They crossed the Atlantic Ocean in man-made boats
• They crossed into the Americas when water levels dropped and exposed a land bridge
• Hunter-gatherers never lived in the Americas
• They swam across the Atlantic

The time period when man made his tools and weapons from stone is known as which of the following? (EK2)

• The Stone Age
• The Bronze Age
• The Iron Age
• The Tool Age

Which of the following is a way hunter-gatherers used fire? (EK3)

• To keep warm
• For protection
  
• For light
  
• All of the above

Why did hunter-gatherers have cave paintings?

• Boredom
• Communication and expression
• For school work
• To make money