Prehistory & Human Beginnings

Archaeologists would classify all of the following as artifacts EXCEPT

• a stone bead

• a metal blade

• an antelope skull

• remains of a cooking pit

Radiocarbon dating involves determining the age of artifacts by

• measuring the amount of radioactive element remaining

• examining the order in which they were found

• comparing the remains to similar discoveries

• analyzing differences in the physical features

A people's way of life is called their

• prehistory

• technology

• culture

• archaeology

Why do scientists call the period before about 3000 BC prehistory?

• because humans did not exist before that time

• because writing did not exist at that time

• because scholars have learned nothing about that time

• because no important historical events happened before that

What did walking upright allow hominins to do?

• study the sky

• develop written language

• use tools

• control fire

What led to the building of permanent settlements?

• migration to the Americans

• development of simple governments

• the end of bloody warfare

• the development of agriculture

One characteristic of civilization is

• fertile river valleys

• developed cities

• industry

• water

Which of the following is a definition of a hominin?

• an early ancestor of humans

• a tool

• a fishhook

• a collection of ancient bones

What effect did farming have on people in the Stone Age?

• it allowed them to build permanent settlements

• it allowed them to travel

• it allowed them to paint caves

• it allowed them to hunt for animals

The act of moving form one place to settle in another place.

• preshistory

• migration

• history

• civilization