First People - Part 1

What is the term used to describe the time before writing was invented?

• Prehistory

• History

• Stone Age

• Paleolithic Era

Which hominid is known as the 'handy man'?

• Homo habilis

• Homo erectus

• Australopithecus

• Homo sapiens

The first tools were mostly used to process ___.

How did the ability to walk on two legs benefit early hominids?

What significant discovery did Mary Leakey make in 1959?

• Bones of an early hominid in East Africa

• The frozen body of a mummified human

• The first stone tools in Tanzania

• The remains of Homo erectus

Homo erectus is believed to have known how to control ___.

Discuss the role of archaeologists and anthropologists in studying prehistory.

An early ancestor of modern-day humans is called a what?

A relative that lived in the past is called a what?

Homo erectus is also called _______________ man.