Hunter/Gatherers

What did the landbridge pictured here allow the hunter-gatherers to do?

• establish permanent settlements

• set up farms

• migrate across continents

• have protections from enemies

What did the discovery of fire allow early man to do?

• cook food, heat homes, protect families, hunt animals

• create primitive machines requiring fire power

• build more permanent structures

• develop a complex form of communication

How did hunter-gatherers adapt to their environment?

• They built permanent settlements

• They traded with other groups of hunter-gatherers

• They farmed the land

• They developed stone tools and learned to use fire.

Where do historians think early man originated?

• North America

• East Africa

• Asia

• Antarctica

During what time period did man learn to use fire, make simple tools, and draw cave art?

• The Old Stone Age

• Neolithic Age

• Middle Ages

• the Renaissance

What roles did men and women have in Hunter-gatherer societies?

• Men gathered and women hunted

• Both men and women hunted and gathered.

• Women gathered and men hunted.

• Men hunted and gathered while women watched children

What does surplus mean?

• Having just enough

• Lacking supplies

• Having enough for your family, but no one else

• Having more than is needed.

Which description below is of a permanent settlement?

• Native Americans living in teepees and moving as herds of animals move.

• Early man living in caves.

• Communities of farming villages

• Hunters and gatherers migrating with their food supply

How did hunter-gatherers express ideas to each other?

• written language
• primitive spoken language
• cave paintings
• hieroglyphics

What do prehistoric stone tools indicate about the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers?

• They prayed to gods of nature.
• They adapted to their natural environments.
• They used language to communicate.
• They had separate roles for men and women.