Origins of Civilization

Anthropologists study ---.

• how humans behave

• how humans interact

• where humans come from

• how groups of people are different from one another

• how genetics have shaped humans

Archaeologists study human life by ---.

• examining bones

• examining artifacts

• studying historical documents

• examining DNA

--- is the time before written records.

• The Neolithic Era

• The Paleolithic Era

• Prehistory

• Homo Sapien

Comparing objects in similar layers of dirt, measuring radioactivity in material and bones, and DNA are all ways of ---.

• dating ancient remains

• studying artifacts

• archaeological digging

• scientific experimentation

Most scholars agree that humankind began in --- about --- years ago.

• Africa, 4.5 million

• Asia, 2.5 million

• Europe, 4.2 million

• Africa, 2.5 million

• Europe, 4.5 million

The first tools were made from ---.

• bone

• stone

• metal

• wood

--- are the first known group to bury their dead.

• Homo Habilis

• Homo Erectus

• Homo Sapien

• Neanderthals

Stone art has been discovered in the Lascaux caves in ---.

• Africa

• France

• Peru

• Ethiopia

• Spain

--- is the belief that animals, trees, rocks, water and weather had spirits.

• monotheism

• polytheism

• animism

• buddhism

Over time people --- plants and animals.

• gathered

• created

• domesticated

• surplused