Prehistory Quiz

The Paleolithic Era is also known as the

• New Stone Age

• Old Stone Age

• Prehistory

• Archaeology

Types of Early Human Housing: Igloos Caves Mud huts Grass huts. These different types of housing are the result of

• Adaptations to the environment

• Social structure

• Religious beliefs

• Contact with other cultures

Place the following hominid groups in the correct chronological order. OLDEST NOW

• Homo Sapiens – Australopithecus – Homo Erectus

• Homo Erectus – Neanderthal – Homo Sapiens

• Homo Sapiens Sapiens – Homo Habilis – Homo Erectus

• Homo erectus – Homo Sapiens – Homo Habilis

The earliest human remains have been found on the continent of

• Asia

• Australia

• Europe

• Africa

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age?

• farming

• tool making

• written language

• organized language

Cave paintings made by prehistoric humans were discovered in

• Lascaux, France

• Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

• Laetoli, Tanzania

• Ethiopia

The time before people invented writing systems as

• geography

• archaeology

• prehistory

• anthropology

People who lived during the Old Stone age got food by

• hunting and gathering

• agriculture

• archaeology

• farming

What is Archaeology?

• the study of dinosaurs

• the study of plants

• the study of early people and their artifacts

• the study of human evolution

Early people stopped moving from place to place with the development of

• Agriculture

• Iron

• The wheel

• Bows and arrows