Unit 1: Early Humans

How did the beginning of agriculture promote the rise of settled communities?

• People were constantly moving in search of food.

• People learned to produce a stable food supply.

• People were constantly fighting for food.

• People learned to hunt for food.

Select all the characteristics of the Neolithic Era.

• Settled communities

• Nomadic

• Developed agriculture

• created Cave Art

• Advanced tools (plow)

In which era did human started to create pottery and woven baskets and cloth?

• Paleolithic

• Neolithic

Clans in the Old Stone Age were rather small. What was the advantage of having such a small group?

• Easier to move

• Easier to feed

• Easier to control

• All of these are true

Hunter gatherers, made simple tools, lived in clans, learned to make/use fire....this describes what Era?

• Neolithic

• Palelolithic

What would have been the purpose of this object during the Neolithic Era?

• Shopping

• gathering crops

• sleeping spot for babies

• holding water

This scientist studies past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains.

• Anthropologist

• Archaeologist

• Palelotologist

• Geologist

Radio carbon dating is a process in which

• animal remains are categorized

• age of an artifact is determined

• location of archaeological sites are mapped

• cultures are recorded

What Neolithic Era site is this?

• Aleppo

• Jericho

• Stonehenge

• Catal Huyuk

Catal Huyuk is a Nelolithic early settlement in present day

• Syria

• Turkey

• Virginia

• Italy