Early Humans

How did hunter-gatherers obtain their food?

• They gathered it from storage.
• They ordered pizza.
• They hunted small animals and gathered wild plants, nuts and fruit. 
• The scavenged dead animals and plants.

What is a Nomad?

• People who travel from place to place depending on the season. 
• People who are never mad.
• People who never travel.
• Hominids that lived in permanent structures called villages.

The time before written records were kept was called ___________________________.

• PreCambrian
• Stone Age
• Prehistoric
• Paleolithic

During the  ___________, glaciers, large mass of ice that moves slowly down a mountain or across land, covered much of the land.

• Renaissance 
• Ice Age
• Middle Age
• Cold Age

How did farming change life for early people?

• Hunting gave people a reason to settle.
• Agriculture, gave people a reason to migrate.
• Agriculture, gave people the ability to control their own food source.
• Farming gave people a reason to seek new land.

How did the domestication of plants and animals IMPACT the lives of hunter gatherers?

• they continued to be nomadic
• they did not change their way of life
• they settled down and became farmers
• they lived separately far away from others

Weapons, tools, and other things made from humans

• Fossils
• Artifacts
• Archaeologists
• Historian

Hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been

• Nomads
• Historian
• Archaeologist
• Anthropologist

People who study and write about the human past

• Historian
• Archeologist
• Artifact
• Fossil

The taming of animals and plants for human use

• Specialization
• Domestication
• Education
• Archaeology