Early Humans Review

When large groups or entire populations move all together

• migration

• agriculture

• irrigation

• job specialization

When people develop farming of either crops or animals

• migration

• agriculture

• irrigation

• job specialization

The process of moving or working with water to suit human needs

• irrigation

• migration

• job specialization

• wrote things down

When people no longer have to fight to survive every day and they can focus on becoming very good at one thing

• migration

• irrigation

• wrote things down

• job specialization

Pre-History is before they did this, History is after

• Job Specialization

• Migration

• Wrote things down

• Irrigation

Archaeologists dig up and study these to learn about the past

• Deserts

• Graveyards

• Artifacts

• Ruins

Early humans are identifiable by footprints because they

• Were bipedal and walked upright

• Walked in unique formations animals never did

• Always had the biggest males in the front and children in the back

• Left trackmarks with their footprints from dragging tools with them

Which best explains why hunter-gatherers started working in groups?

• Some humans specialized in taking care of chilren

• It was easier to hunt large game animals by working together with others

• They had to take care of members of their group who were sick

• Population increases led to competition for limited resources

Based on what is known about hunters-gatherers, a man with a broken arm most likely would have be

• Left behind by the group to fend for himself

• Assigned a job to care for the elderly

• Asked to go to the gathering team until he recovered

• Given a different job in the hunt that he could still perform with the injury

Scholars have concluded that early cave paintings

• Reveal information about how many people were in a group

• Reflect early humans religious or spiritual belief

• Show how many sunsets an early human group may have seen

• Gives us clues about their social hierarchies for the groups who painted them