WorksheetsAncient Australian History
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the out of Africa Theory?
The next big fashion trend will come from Africa.
It is an evolution theory.
It is a theory about bird migration from Africa to Europe.
All modern humans are ultimately descendants from Africans.
When did Mungo Man die?
35 thousand years ago
50 thousand years ago
42 thousand years ago
40 thousand years ago
How did Australia first people travel to Australia over 60 thousand years ago?
Initially they walked via a land bridge when the seas were lower and then island hopped using canoes.
They have always been in Australia.
By sailing ship.
They only traveled by foot.
How do we know Mungo man was an important member of the tribe?
He was buried with tools.
His remains were sprinkled with red ochre.
He was buried with precious jewels
His bones indicated he didn't do much work.
What covers the Gabarnmung Rock Shelter.
The shelter is overgrown with moss.
Indigenous paintings dating back to 35 thousand years.
Indigenous paintings which dates back to the same time as Stone Hedge.
Paintings of the human face.
Why were Mungo's man back teeth worn down?
They were filed as part of a ritual.
He had a habit of grinding his teeth.
He would use these teeth to process vegetable fibre to make twine.
Bad dental hygiene.
Why are the rock carvings at the Burrup Peninsula so special?
They are over 30 thousand years old and evidence of some of the oldest creations of human faces.
They are the most simplistic carvings in the world.
They are evidence of aliens visiting the earth thousands of years old.
They are extremely old and extremely large.
Mungo Man, Burrup Peninsula Rock Carvings and The Gabarnmung Rock Shelter are evidence that...
Australian first people have the oldest living culture in the world.
Shows that the first people had complex spiritual beliefs 10s of thousands of years ago.
Shows that the first people were using stone-edge tools before Stone Hedge was built.
All of the above.
How long do the first people believe that they have been in Australia?
Always been here evolved from ancestral being that came from the earth and the stars.
Always been here they evolved from various different Australian animals.
They arrive approximately 60 thousand years ago migrating from Asia.
They don't know.
In what state is Lake Mungo.
Queensland
New South Wales
South Australia
Western Australis
