Chapter 1 Test_Review

What is the study of the origins and development of humans and human society?

• Psychology

• Anthropology

• Geology

• Paleontology

What are the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs?

• technology

• artifacts

• pictographs

• animism

What is the era in prehistory that dates from at least 2 million B.C. to about 10,000 B.C.E.

• Neolithic Period

• Paleolithic Period

• New Stone Age

• Iron Age

What is one of the first Neolithic villages?

• Saugerties

• Jericho

• Syracuse

• Rome

the belief that spirits and forces exist within animals, objects, or dreams

• animism

• voodoo

• zoroastrianism

• buddhism

An early step in the development of writing

• pictographs

• doodling

• caligraphy

• pig latin

the prehistoric era that began about 10,000 B.C.E.

• Paleolithic Period

• Neolithic Period

• Old Stone Age

• Iron Age

Describes people who believe in many gods

• monotheistic

• zoroastrian

• buddhist

• polytheistic

discovered evidence at Olduvai Gorge that early hominids learned to use tools

• Mary and Louis Leakey

• Donald Johanson

• Lilith Sternin

• Frasier Crane

first to discover enough of a skeleton (a.k.a. "Lucy") to provide a good look at an early hominid

• Mary and Louis Leakey

• Donald Johanson

• Lilith Sternin

• Frasier Crane