Migration & Environment
This slow change in Earth's weather forced Paleolithic people to move to new places to find food and resources.
What is Climate change (ice age / colder climates) forced migration?
The way people live, including their beliefs, traditions, language, and customs.
What is culture?
The application of knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet people’s needs.
What is technology?
Objects made by humans (e.g., tools).
What is an artifact?
Which extinct megafauna lived during the Ice Age: Velociraptor, Woolly mammoth, Hippopotamus, or the squirrel from Ice Age?
What is a woolly mammoth.?
About 20,000 years ago, people reached North America by crossing this route between Asia and North America.
What is the land bridge (Beringia) between Asia and North America.
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Give two examples of what culture includes
What is language, food, clothing, religion, holidays, tools, laws, music?
Name a technology Paleolithic people used that made life easier, healthier, or safer.
What are stone tools?
The remains or imprint of something that was once alive.
What is a fossil?
Name one characteristic of Ice Age animals that helped them survive cold climates
What is: thick fur, fat layers, large size to retain heat, special teeth for grazing.
Name one reason early humans migrated when climates changed
What is: searching for food, following herds, finding warmer areas, finding water.
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Studies human cultures and how people live
What is an anthropologist?
How did stone tools help early people hunt or prepare food?
What is: Stone tools allowed people to cut meat, scrape hides, and shape wood, making food prep and clothing easier.
A stone arrowhead made by humans.
What is an artifact?
Why would Ice Age people hunt large animals like mammoths?
What is sample: Mammoths provided large amounts of meat, hides for clothing, and bones for tools and shelter.
Explain how moving to new regions could change how people lived
What is: Moving to new regions changed diets and shelter; people learned new ways to make tools and clothing?
Provide one example of a cultural practice and explain how it helps a group survive or belong.
What is a tradition of shared hunting helps people get enough food and builds teamwork.
Give one example of a tool and explain how it shows developing skill or knowledge
Example: Arrowheads show skill in shaping stone for hunting?
A scientist who studies artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
The name of the land bridge that connected Siberia with North America.
What is Beringia?
Describe one environmental challenge Ice Age people faced and one way they adapted
What is : Cold temperatures and ice; adapted by making warmer clothing and using animal fur, building shelters, hunting large mammals?
Explain why language and traditions are important parts of culture.
What is: Language helps people share knowledge and pass down stories. Traditions give a group identity and teach useful skills.
Compare two technologies used by early people and say which helped more with daily survival
Stone tools vs. simple clothing: Stone tools helped hunt and process food; clothing helped survive cold — both important, but tools affected daily food supply directly.
Explain the difference between an artifact and a fossil in your own words
Sample: An artifact is made by people (tools, pottery); a fossil is a natural remain or imprint of a once-living plant or animal.
The sea level was this much lower during the ice age
What is 400 feet