UCP/Cave Art
Prehistory is the time before
writing
What does CE mean?
Common Era
people's unique way of life, studied by anthropologists
culture
Which type of historian studies human culture and how it develops over time?
Anthropologist
People during the Paleolithic Age obtained food primarily through these two activities.
Hunting and gathering
Another word for the Old Stone Age
Paleolithic
Place the following in chronological order.
300 CE
400 BCE
500 BCE
200 CE
500 BCE, 400 BCE, 200 CE, 300 CE
Technology
A scientist who studies fossils to learn about ancient life and organisms is called this.
Paleontologist
Because farmers stayed in one location, Neolithic communities developed this permanent type of living arrangement, unlike nomadic tribes.
Permanent villages or settlements
France
decade, century, millennium
human or other creature that walks upright
Hominid
What historian would excavate and study a clay pot found in a place where an ancient civilization once lived?
Archeologist
Name a lifestyle or health advantage of the hunter/gatherer lifestyle
varied diet
fewer diseases
more interesting
travel in family units, trust
more exercise
What can't we know from studying cave art? Why not?
What the cave painters were experiencing, what they wanted to tell us because we have no written record or other clues about their lives.
What year comes directly after 1 BCE?
1 CE
Bipedal
What century did the year 1673 happen in?
17th century
Name 2 advantages of a settled lifestyle, living in a village, farming, etc.
specialized workers can perfect a craft
stable food supply
reliable housing
larger, more varied community of people
Farming can be practiced all over world
If an event occurred in 3000 BCE and another in 1500 CE, this many total years separated the two events.
What is 4,500 years?
Traits or behaviors found in every human society, such as language, family structure, and art...
What are Universal Culture Patterns?
What are the 5 patterns that all human cultures ever have included?
Make a living, food, survival
Art/Self-expression
Religious expression
Knowledge/Learning
Social Organization
Neolithic farmers and herders relied on these 2 practices involving clearing land and keeping animals
slash and burn farming, domestication