WHI.2 Study Guide

Tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings, and household items left behind by early people.

• Fossils

• Artifacts

• Bipedality

• Prehistory

Explains the migration of homo sapiens from Africa into rest of the world. It is also sometimes referred to as the Replacement Theory.

• Stratigraphy

• Hominid

• Olduvai Gorge

• Out-of-Africa Theory

Determining the age of a fossil or artifact by studying the layers of deposits in an archaeological site.

• Artifacts

• Australopithecus

• Stratigraphy

• Radiocarbon dating

Time period prior to keeping written records.

• Prehistory

• Hominid

• Homo sapiens

• History

Means "southern ape"; the earliest hominid that flourished in eastern and southern Africa about 3 million years ago; example is "Lucy."

• Neanderthals

• Australopithecus

• Homo sapiens

• Out-of-Africa Theory

Remais of dead animals and plants that have been preserved in earth's crust.

• Artifacts

• Stratigraphy

• Fossils

• Prehistory

The way of life a people follow, including for example, art, music, food, government, etc.

• Prehistory

• Culture

• Artifacts

• Hominid

Walking upright on two legs.

• Bipedality

• Prehistory

• Out-of-Africa Theory

• Stratigraphy

Site in eastern Africa of the oldest found hominid fossil that was discovered by Mary and Louis Leakey.

• Jericho

• Olduvai Gorge

• Catalhoyuk

• Aleppo

Humans and humanlike creatures that walk upright on two legs.

• Hominids

• Out-of-Africa Theory

• Culture

• Fossils