The nickname Donald Johanson gave to the bones of Australopithecus Afarensis
What is Lucy
100
Early ancestors of humans were called...
What are hominids
100
The continent where anthropologists and archaeologists believe the human race began.
What is Africa
100
People in Asia, often made shelters out of this animal's bones
What is a mammoth
100
A handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task.
What is a tool.
200
The scientific name for modern man.
What are homo sapiens or homo sapiens sapiens
200
This hominid's name meaning "upright man" was also the first to control fire and migrate to Asia and Europe
Who was Homo Erectus
200
The age when large sheets of ice covered the earth.
What is the Ice Age
200
This word means "to farm"
What is agriculture
200
A relative that lived in the past.
What is an ancestor.
300
A community of people who share a common culture
What is a society
300
In this society women collect plants, seeds, and nuts, while men are out looking for animals for food
What is a hunter-gatherer society or hunter-gatherers
300
The theory that says all human life began in Africa and then migrated elsewhere
What is the Out-of-Africa Theory
300
People learned to sew animal skins together to make...
What is clothing
300
Charles Darwin's two word term that describes how organisms that adapt to their environment survive, while those that don't adapt die off, is called...
What is Natural Selection
400
The time before writing
What is prehistory
400
Name two tools used during the Old Stone Age.
What are choppers, hand axes, and spears
400
This land bridge allowed people to migrate from Asia to North America
What is the Bering Land Bridge
400
Creating and controlling this, allowed people to stay warm and cook their food
What is fire
400
The process of changing plants and animals to make them useful to humans
What is domestication
500
The scientific word for walking on two legs
What is bipedalism
500
Hunter-gatherers were these type of people, who moved around from place to place
What is nomadic (nomad)
500
This was the last continent settled by human beings
What is South America
500
What are the names, in order, given to the Old, Middle, and New Stone Ages
What are Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Periods
500
What was created by Stone Age humans in order to explain natural things (weather, fire, day/night, etc.) they could not understand?