Human Migration and Geography Skills
This large desert is in northern Africa.
The Sahara Desert
A man-made object that tells about the past
artifact
DNA evidence confirms that all modern humans descended from a female in this continent about 195,000 years ago.
Africa
If you visit these caves, in present day France, you can see cave paintings dating from approximately 20,000 years ago.
Lascaux Caves
It flows north through Africa, terminating in the Mediterranean Sea, and is the longest river in the world.
The Nile
These are in the Arctic Circle. When they melted about 120,000 years ago, they made the deserts shrink.
glaciers
This climate event, which occurred between 135,000 - 120,000 years ago, caused the deserts to become wetter.
melting glaciers
A scientist who studies human history by digging up remains and other artifacts.
archeologist
This sea lies between Africa and Europe, and may have prevented early migration directly between the two continents.
Mediterranean Sea
remains, impression, or trace of a living thing, such as a skeleton or a footprint
fossil
Tools including stone choppers, scrapers, double-sided blades, and wooly rhino horn and mammoth tusk were found in the far northeast of this continent, near the Arctic Circle.
Asia
This word means proof. Artifacts and fossils can be __________ of ancient human settlements.
evidence
Located between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea, it is made up of mostly grassy plains and god for farming. However it lacked abundant stone, metal, and wood.
The Fertile Crescent
This word describes soil in which crops can grow more easily.
fertile
This important Neolithic archeological site has the remains of a town. It is located in present-day Turkey.
Catalhoyuk
The Fertile Crescent is in this region. It is home to the present day countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel.
Middle East
Located in the Middle East, it means "the land between two rivers." A large part of it is the Fertile Crescent.
Mesopotamia
Sahul and Bering are names of this geographic feature which may have helped humans to migrate to present day Australia and North America.
land bridge
Between 135,000 - 120,000 years ago, humans reached this part of Africa. Remains of mussels and periwinkles were found indicating humans used marine waters for food.
South Africa
Located in the north of present-day Egypt, this part of the Nile River was ideal for early human settlement because of its thick, rich soil.
Nile River Valley