Vocabulary 1
Hunting small animals and gathering plants.
Hunter-gatherer
What kind of evidence do scientists use to study early migration?
Fossils and genetic information
Surroundings
Environment
What are some of the elements that make up a culture?
Social and family organization, beliefs and values and technology.
People who move from place to place with the seasons.
Nomads
What discoveries did Donald Johanson make?
Johanson and his team had uncovered hundreds of pieces of bone.
occurs when people leave their homeland to live somewhere else.
Migrate
How was the Paleolithic society organized?
Small nomadic bands (small groups of people who move from place to place)
Objects made and used by humans. Examples: stone tools, renaissance paintings.
Artifacts
How did people adapt to changing climate conditions during the last ice age?
They used materials like mammoth bones and hides to make warmer shelters and bones.
Tools and skills that people used to meet their needs and wants.
Technology
What parts of the world did early civilizations develop?
Central America, Northwest South America, Northwest and northeast Africa, Southwest and eastern Asia
belief that the natural world was filled with spirits.
Animism
Explain how archeologists and geologists help us learn about the past.
Archeologists study the fossils and artifacts that people leave behind. Geologists study soil and rocks to help determine the age of the fossils and artifacts.
Groups of family with similar ancestors
Clans
How did hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic Era survive?
Hunter-gatherers lived in small bands of families that moved from place to place for food.
The study of how human beings behave, how they act together, where they came from and what makes one group of people different from one another.
Anthropology
What evidence supports the theory that the migration of modern humans began in Africa?
A skull found in South Africa is the same as ones from the same period found in Europe. DNA studies show genetic variety in Africa. This suggests that people migrated from Africa in their modern form.
Scientists who study the physical materials of Earth itself, such as soil and rocks.
Geologists
Where in the world did the movement of early people take place?
North and South America– People migrated along the eastern and coastal regions of North America and south to the eastern and western parts of South America.