Paleolithic Era
In the Paleolithic Era, people moved frequently to find food. What is this lifestyle called?
What is nomadic?
This major change allowed people to settle in one place and grow their own food.
What is agriculture?
This is the study of past human life through artifacts and remains.
What is archaeology?
The Earth is split into four parts called ________.
What are hemispheres?
Catalhöyük was an early Neolithic settlement located in present-day ________.
What is Turkey?
These small groups of people, usually 20-30, traveled together during the Paleolithic Era.
What are bands?
This early Neolithic village was built close together, and people entered their homes through the roofs.
What is Catalhöyük?
These are objects made or used by people in the past, like tools, pottery, or jewelry.
What are artifacts?
The Eastern Hemisphere includes these four continents.
What are Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia?
People in Catalhöyük entered their homes through this part of the house.
What is the roof?
Early humans in the Paleolithic Era depended on this lifestyle for food.
What is hunter-gathering?
Name one animal that was domesticated during the Neolithic Era.
What are sheep or goats?
Archaeologists often find artifacts by carefully digging up these areas.
What are excavation sites?
This line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The houses in Catalhöyük were built very close together, without ________.
What are streets?
People during the Paleolithic Era used simple tools like hand axes and scrapers. These tools were typically made from this material.
What is stone?
In the Neolithic Era, people started raising animals like sheep and goats to live alongside humans. This process is called ________.
What is domestication?
These scientists help us understand how early humans lived by studying their physical remains and artifacts.
Who are archaeologists?
The oldest known human fossils have been found in this continent in the Eastern Hemisphere, where early humans originated.
What is Africa?
Catalhöyük was part of this larger historical change that marked the shift from nomadic life to settled farming communities.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
These images, found in Lascaux, France, show animals and hunting scenes from the Paleolithic Era.
What are cave paintings?
The invention of this farming tool made it easier for Neolithic people to prepare land for planting crops.
What is the plow?
Name one type of evidence archaeologists study to understand early human societies.
What are artifacts, bones, pottery, or tools?
This hemisphere is home to many early civilizations, like those in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
Catalhöyük residents grew crops like ________ and ________, which were among the first plants to be domesticated.
What are wheat and barley?