World HY Chapter 3- Early Humans

Early humans were hunter-gatherers. This means?

• They found their food growing wild, hunted, or fished
• They grew crops
• They traded for food at the market
• They were only scavengers

What is a fossil?

• An object from the past made by humans
• Anything old you dig up from the dirt
• Dinosaur bones in a museum
• Hardened remains or imprints of something once living

Which is not a benefit of fire for the early humans?

• Allowed them to hunt in dark
• Allowed them to cook their food
• Allowed them to make tools
• Allowed them to move to cooler climates

What did most Homo Sapiens paint in their cave art?

• hunters and animals
• people
• houses
• landscapes

This time period is when early man made tools from stone and bone?

• Stone Age
• Ice Age
• Bronze Age
• Prehistoric Times

What was the Ice Age?

• A period when early people made tools from stone and bone
• A period when stronger weapons were created
• A period when dinosaurs died out
• A period when much of the earth's water was frozen in glaciers 

How were Neanderthals and later Homo Sapiens different from other earlier humans?

• They lived in East Africa
• They had larger skulls, bigger brains, and buried their dead with ceremony
• They were hunter-gatherers
• They stood upright and used tools

What is an artifact?

• The remains of something that was once living

• The remains of objects that were made and used by humans

• Dinosaur bones

• an imprint of a leaf

Ardi was bipedal.

• true

• false

What does prehistory mean?

• The time before time.

• The time period before writing/recording of events.

• Previous history.