Early Humans

Which of the following items has never been found in a cave painting?

• trees

• snakes

• lions

• panthers

Anthropologists think humans probably first used fire to __________.

• cook their food

• frighten away animals

• give light to their campsites

• keep themselves warm

What did Richard Leakey find as a young boy that made him decide to become an anthropologist and archaeologist?

• birds

• cave paintings

• stone arrowheads and tools

• Pizza

Use the diagram above to answer. What reason could best be added to the web above as an advantage of early humans forming communities near rivers or streams?

• taming of animals

• huntering and gathering

• transportation

• apple pie

When did early humans begin to use bows and arrows for hunting?

• the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)

• the Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

• the Mesolithic Age

• Over Age

Which of the following was NOT found with Otzi, the human body found preserved in a glacier?

• grains of wheat in a container

• a copper ax

• a fur hat

• a spear

Excavation at the town of Catalhoyuk in Turkey shows that the people who lived there possibly entered their mud brick houses this way -

• through underground tunnels

• through holes on the roof

• by boats

• through garage door

Once early humans learned to grow crops for food and settle in one place, they had time for _______.

• hunting larger animals

• arts and crafts like painting and pottery

• a more nomadic lifestyle

• traveling

Louis Leakey's discoveries showed that the oldest evidence of human life found so far comes from -

• Africa

• Asia

• North Carolina

• Mexico

What sharp stone was most used by early people to make arrowheads, scrapers and knives?

• marble

• flint

• magma

• limestone