Early Humans
She created a system to categorize and catalog fossils and artifacts.
Who is Mary Leakey?
A person who moves from place to place with no permanent home.
The time period when humans began farming and settling permanently.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Where hunter-gatherers often lived.
What are caves, temporary huts, or near water
Surplus food led people to have time to develop these special skills
What is specialization?
These were the remains that helped scientists learn that humans originated in Africa.
Who is Lucy?
The word for moving to a new location for survival, food, shelter, or climate.
What is migration?
Taming and controlling of plants and animals.
A reason cave art is meaningful today
What is: It showed what early humans cared about, what they hunted, and/or what they encountered in their daily lives.
Specialization of labor leads to this with other villages.
What is trade?
This type of scientist studies fossils and artifacts from the past.
What is an archaeologist?
Early humans who searched for food by traveling consistently.
Who were hunter-gatherers?
Extra food that leads to more stability in a community.
What is a surplus?
Why cave art is considered communication.
It recorded life, events, etc.
Agriculture and trade helped create this part of civilization
What is the leading to laws, culture, religion, bigger populations, etc.
This scientist studies how humans behave and where they came from.
What is an anthropologist?
This allowed early humans to stay warm, cook food, stay safe, and survive in colder places.
What is fire?
When people become experts in one skill.
specialization (of labor)
One way ancient humans obtained their food
What is hunting and gathering?
Specialization is considered the building block of civilization because...
What is it helped communities grow, and people work together to meet their needs?
Early humans used these to make life easier for hunting, cooking, fishing, gathering, and protection.
What are tools?
What hunter-gatherers did when food or water ran out in an area.
What is moved to a new location?
This allowed ancient people to form settlements, live safer lives, and develop communities.
What is farming?
The type of evidence early humans left behind that teaches us about their lives.
What is cave art?
This is the number of school years Ms. Chattler has been teaching in this school.
What is three?