Early Human Life
What is the name of the earliest period of human history?
What is the Stone Age
What did Paleolithic women primarily do?
What is gather food and care for children
What is a person who studies and writes about the human past?
What is a historian
What major development allowed people to settle in one place?
What is farming
After learning to farm, early humans began living in these instead of moving from place to place.
What are permanent homes or villages
What were early humans who moved from place to place in search of food called?
Who are nomads
What tools did Paleolithic men use to hunt?
What are clubs, spears, traps, bows and arrows
Who studies artifacts to learn about past human life?
What is an archaeologist
What do we call the taming of animals for human use?
What is domestication
Farming and food storage led to this important population trend.
What is population growth
What is the name of the earliest part of the Stone Age?
What is the Paleolithic Period
How did the roles of people change in the Neolithic Age due to food surplus?
What is people began specializing in other jobs like pottery and weaving
What is a preserved remain of a plant or animal?
What is a fossil
Name one of the oldest Neolithic villages
What is Jericho or Çatal Hüyük
After farming began, people started making tools from this stronger material instead of just stone.
What is metal (copper, tin, or bronze)
What major discovery helped Paleolithic people survive cold climates and cook food?
What is fire
What is specialization?
What is the development of different kinds of jobs
What is a person who studies human development and culture?
What is an anthropologist
How did domesticating animals help Neolithic people?
What is they provided meat, milk, wool, carried goods, and pulled carts
With fire, people could now do this indoors, which improved health and survival.
What is cook food & indoor light
Why did early humans develop spoken language, and how did it help them?
What is to make working together easier and to pass on knowledge?
Why was specialization important in Neolithic communities?
What is it allowed people to trade and create goods they didn’t produce themselves
Compare the jobs of archaeologists and anthropologists.
What is archaeologists study objects from the past, while anthropologists focus on how humans lived and interacted
Why do historians call the shift to farming a “revolution”?
What is, it was a dramatic change that transformed how humans lived and organized their societies
Farming created food surpluses, which led people to do this with goods like pottery and cloth.
What is trade.