Paleo

What animal was hunted in the Paleolithic time period but later transformed how people travel, transport things, and do battle?

• Bison
• Horse
• Sabretooth Tiger
• Wooly mammoth

What were the Denisovans?

• Hominid relatives of modern humans and Neanderthals
• Stone-tipped spears used by paleolithic humans
• The name of early pot shards
• The type of diseases that wiped out the Neanderthals

Paleolithic comes from two Greek words. What does “paleo” mean?

• Diet/food
• Human/person
• Old/ancient/far away in time
• Stone/rock

Paleolithic comes from two Greek words. What does “lithos” mean?

• Diet/food
• Human/person
• Old/ancient/far away in time
• Stone/rock

What is “figurative art”

• Art depicting (showing) something in the real world
• Art including math equations
• Art that has shapes
• Art with many colors and materials

Who build the earliest known structures?

• Aliens
• Denovians
• Homo Sapiens (us!)
• Neanderthals

About how long have cats been living with humans?

• 5,300 years
• 18,000 years
• 33,000 years
• 81,ooo years

What surprising things did satellite images show in the Arabian Peninsula?

• Crop circles made by aliens
• Large structures that early humans built
• New plant species
• Prehistoric lakes

What is one possible advantage of having Neanderthal DNA?

• Ancestral memory
• Denser muscle tissue
• Greater resistance to illness
• Stronger eyesight

How do scientists date cave art?

• Ask it out politely
• Check on their timeline
• Compare the materials to known art
• Date the calcite (a mineral) under and over the paintings