Early Humans Unit 1

The Agricultural Revolution is

• the time period before written records

• a period of time where humans invented and primarily used stone tools

•  when humans shifted from hunting/gathering to farming

• time period where humans built modern skyscrapers

Domestication is

• Taming plants and animals for human use

• Using plants as decoration

• Hunting animals for food

• Picking berries from a tree

Society can be defined as

• time period before written records

• staying in one location with no other humans

• people who travel from one location to another

• group of people living together within a community

Early relatives to modern humans

• people

• humans

• hominids

• ancestors

Prehistory can be defined as

• any period in the past

• the time in history before written record

• the time in history after written record

• modern-day history

The two main eras of the Stone Age are the...

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Telolithic Age

• Mesolithic Age

A person who studies prehistory by examining objects and artifacts

• Anthropologist

• Archeologist

• Geologist

• Historian

Artifact

• an object object from the past

• a man made object still in use today

• remains of something that was once living

• an instrument used to study things of the past

A fossil

• man made object from the past

• remains of something that was once living

• an object from the past still in use today

• an object used to study things from the past

Where is it believed that humans first originated

• Asia

• Australia

• Europe

• East Africa