Vocabulary
An item made by someone in the past that can be studied today.
artifacts
Human like creatures that walked upright
hominid
What is one thing archeologists learned about Lucy from studying her bones?
she stood up, she was 3.2 million years old, she was a hominid, she was about 3 feet tall
Most cave art are paintings of...
animals
What is one characteristic of a hominid?
...
What is one similarity and one difference between early human skeleton and modern human skeleton.
Similarities: They all have a brain pain, nostrils, eye socket, jaw, ear socket
difference: depends on student answers
What was one thing that archeologist learned from studying Otzi's skeleton?
depends on student answers
What is one thing we can learn from studying cave art?
depends on student answers
A time before written records
prehistory/prehistoric
Where are the earliest humans from? (Lucy)
Ethiopia, Africa
What type of hominid was Lucy?
Australopithecus afarensis
Cave paintings reveal to us that early humans found ways to....
communicate
List 4 characteristics of a hominid.
walk upright, communicate, use tools, erect posture, bigger brains, walk on two legs
What were early humans main life concern?
Survival
What are three theories for how scientists believe that Otzi the Iceman most likely died from...
Heart disease, murdered, froze to death
What is one place that cave paintings have been found?
France
The scientific name for cave men.
Neanderthalensis
Lucy's bones helped solve which question that archeologists always wondered about?
AND what's the correct answer to the question
Did bigger brains or walking upright come first?
Walking upright came first
Why did early humans paint animals in caves?
It shows what they interacted with, it shows what what was important to them.