Early Humans
This is the period of history when people used stone tools but had not yet developed agriculture.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
A scientist who studies human beings, their cultures, and their development.
What is an anthropologist?
People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food were called this.
What are hunter-gatherers?
The practice of growing plants and raising animals for food is called this.
What is agriculture?
The scientific study of past human life through artifacts and remains.
What is archaeology?
This period brought extremely cold temperatures and large sheets of ice over parts of Earth.
What is the Ice Age?
A scientist who studies past human societies by examining objects and remains.
What is an archaeologist?
Hunter-gatherers usually moved around instead of living in permanent settlements. What were they called?
What are nomads?
Agriculture allowed people to produce their own food instead of relying only on hunting and gathering.
What is farming?
A person who studies human cultures and development.
What is an anthropologist?
Early humans moved from place to place instead of living permanently in one location.
What is being nomadic?
The movement of people from one place to another is called this.
What is migration?
Why did hunter-gatherers move when food became scarce?
They needed to find new sources of food.
What happened to many people after agriculture developed?
They began living in permanent settlements.
A person who moves from place to place rather than living permanently in one location.
Answer:
What is a nomad?
These are the remains or traces of plants and
animals preserved in a rock?
What are fossils?
What continent did the earliest humans originate in?
What is Africa?
Name two types of food hunter-gatherers might have obtained.
Wild plants and animals.
When people produce more food than they need immediately, it is called this.
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What is a food surplus?
The movement of people from one geographic area to another.
What is migration?
Why did early humans migrate to different parts of the world?
To find food, water, shelter, and better places to live.
What natural changes during the Ice Age helped influence where early humans could live?
Changes in climate and the availability of food and water.
How did the environment affect the way hunter-gatherers lived?
They adapted their food, shelter, tools, and movement to the environment around them.
How did food surpluses help civilizations develop?
They allowed populations to grow and enabled some people to specialize in different jobs.
A complex society with organized government, cities, specialized workers, and other features.
What is a civilization?