Paleolithic Period--Old Stone Age

Archaeologists mostly study ...

• current human culture

• past human culture through physical objects

• past human culture through written sources

• how human societies work

What is an artifact?

• A type of prehistoric settlement

• A type of ancient deer

• What we call a fact in prehistory

• Something made by people.

Prehistory is the time before ...

• The rise of homo sapiens

• The birth of Christ

• the invention of writing

• The invention of agriculture

The Old Stone Age is also known as ...

• The Paleolithic

• The Paleocene

• The Paleontology

• The Neolithic

Which comes first?

• AD

• BC

Which comes first?

• 500 AD

• 500 BC

• 2000 BC

• 2000 AD

During the paleolithic period, people lived in ...

• sturdy clay houses

• large groups called nations

• small groups called tribes

• small agile boats

All language in the Paleolithic was spoken. Another word for this is ...

• oral

• written

• sign language

• indo-european

What controlled the daily lives of people in the paleolithic?

• their social bonds

• their religion

• their search for money

• the environment

Because their cave art almost always shows animals, we think that ...

• paleolithic people weren't good at drawing

• paleolithic people used pictures of animals as writing

• paleolithic people practiced a religion called animism

• paleolithic people were vegetarians