All hominids
These two characteristics define hominids, which are a type of ape.
bipedalism and big brains
Name the main continent Neanderthals lived
Europe
This is a word that means to dig
excavate
This is a person who may study the landforms, water, and try to map an area
geographer
birthplace of humanity
Africa
This describes the climate epoch that Neanderthals thrived during.
An Ice Age
DNA
Which type of person who studies the past asks, "What is this? What do we see?"
archeologist
This hominid was the most apelike and could not make tools or speak
Australopithecus
This is the name of the cave where the "flower burial" was discovered.
Shanidar Cave
These are two types of materials archeologists try to excavate
Which type of person who studies the past is really a writer or storyteller who tries to explain what the evidence tell us?
historian
This hominid was the first to leave Africa and spread throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East
H. erectus
This ritual, that left cutmarks on bones and skull of Neanderthals, could have been a way they thought they would carry with them some quality of the deceased.
cannibalism
This is a person who may work closely with archeologists who compare bones with other specimens or with other living cultures to learn about early hominids
paleoanthropologist
What do we call soil samples, artifacts, fossils, and other proof about the theories people who study the past?
evidence