GS9 topic 1

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

________ refers to the study of past people and cultures through their material remains.

• Archaeology

• Astrology

• Geology

• Zoology

The Leakeys discovered ancient stone tools in a gorge in which country?

• Kenya

• Tanzania

• Egypt

• Ethiopia

What is technology?

• a method used for dating material remains

• the study of people and their societies

• the skills and tools people use to meet basic needs and wants

• the study of past people and cultures through their material remains

Which place is likely being described in the text?

Deposits exposed in the sides of the gorge cover a time span from about 2.1 million to 15,000 years ago. The deposits have yielded the fossil remains of more than 60 hominids (members of the human lineage), providing the most continuous known record of human evolution during the past 2 million years, as well as the longest known archaeological record of the development of stone-tool industries.

• Dunajec Gorge

• Kali Gandaki Gorge

• Sianok Gorge

• Olduvai Gorge

Which objects provided anthropologists with the first clues about prehistoric life?

• pottery, weavings, and artwork

• coins, tombstones, and tax records

• footprints, bones, and tools

• jewelry, architecture, and weapons

Which time period is being discussed in the text?

These early farmers were the first humans to domesticate plants and animals—that is, to raise them in a controlled way that makes them best suited to human use. Plant domestication may have begun with food gatherers realizing that seeds scattered on the ground would produce new plants the next year. Animal domestication may have begun with people deciding to round up the animals they usually hunted.

• Paleolithic Period

• Neolithic Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Old Stone Age

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

The Old Stone Age belief that spirits and forces reside in animals, objects, or dreams is known as ________.

• polytheism

• domestication

• animism

• cultural diffusion

Which village is being described in the text?

Although the village was tiny—about the size of a few soccer fields—a few thousand people lived in it. The village was surrounded by a huge wall, which suggests that it had a government or leader who was able to organize a large construction project.

• Sofala

• Malindi

• Jericho

• Lamu

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

________, which was one of the oldest villages in the world, is described in the text.

The village covered about three times more land than Jericho and included hundreds of rectangular mud-brick houses, all connected and all about the same size.

• Olduvai

• Johanson

• Çatalhüyük

• Turkana

The calendar was an important technology because ________ .

• it let people know when to serve meals

• it let people know when the sun rose and set

• it let people know when to plant and harvest

• it let people know how to measure seeds