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Historians call the time before there was writing
prehistory
The location of the oldest tools
Africa
The place where early man took shelter
What is a cave
Early humans used what tool to help dig holes to plant wheat?
Hoe
Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task.
tool
Scientists believe that the first tools were used to...
process food and hunt
Paleolithic people realized that by attaching a rock to a stick created what tool?
Hammer
People who study past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts are called?
Archeologist
An early ancestor of humans
hominid
People use this to break limbs, dig, and to cut animal hides.
hand ax
These people not only hunted but also...
What is gathered
What region is located between the Euphrates and Tigris river?
Mesopotamia
A way to bring water to crops?
Irrigation
What Materials are used to make tools
Stone, Bones, and Wood
A group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land
What is a nomad
For 400 points, act like a monkey
monkey
What is the oldest civilization?
Sumer
What is the most important discovery in the Paleolithic Era?
Fire
Who are ancestors of human?
Hominids
What year did the Paleolithic era begin and end?
2.5 million years to 10,000 BC
To tame wild animals is called?
Domesticate