Otiz The Ice Man
What year was Otiz discovered?
1991
What is the major advantage farmers had over hunters?
They had a stable source of food.
What was an early farming method that they cut trees or grasses and burned them to clear a field?
slash-and-burn farming
How did the invention of tools benefit early modern humans?
What killed Otiz?
An arrowhead
What is domestication?
Taming of animals
What was one benefits of settled life?
It supported the development of skilled workers.
Providing enough food, improving methods of hunting and farming, finding appropriate locations to settle, and coping with natural disasters and war
What preserved Otiz in the state that he was able to be discovered?
Frozen in ice
Why might agriculture not have developed in the interior of Africa?
Climate and terrain
People who lived in early permanent settlements enjoyed the benefits of _____ time. (think about now that we were not having to search or worry about finding food)
free
What were highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging?
Nomads
What did Otiz do before he died?
Eat a meal
How did the development of agriculture establish the foundation for modern life?
It provided a steady source of food that supported larger populations
The Neolithic Revolution might have began when some women did what?
scattered seeds
Which effect of the development of agriculture was the most significant?
Better tools, artwork, increased population, established settlements, domesticated animals
Why was Alexander Horn called in to do to Otiz?
To figure out how he died.
Why did farming first develop in a number of river valleys around the world?
These areas provided two resources needed for agriculture, fertile soil and the supply of water
What did they worship the religious shrines that were dedicated to a mother goddess for?
She controlled the supply of grains as what they believed.
They painted about the wild animals they encountered, such as the ones that they hunted and depended on for their survival.