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The Stone Ages and Early Cultures Chapter 2
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| Why is the study of ancient bones important to us today? |
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| The study of ancient bones gives us information about our human ancestors. |
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| What was important about Donald Johanson's discovery of Lucy in 1974? |
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| It pointed to a hominid's ability to walk upright. |
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| What defines Homo erectus? |
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| What effect did the invention of tools have on early humans? |
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| They increased chances for survival. |
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| What defines a land bridge? |
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| A strip of land connecting two continents |
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| Why did people learn how to make clothes and build shelters after migrating out of Africa? |
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| They needed more protection to survive in colder areas. |
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| What defines the Neolithic Revolution? |
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| The shift from food gathering to food producing |
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| What effect did farming have on people in the Stone Age? |
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| It allowed them to build permanent settlements. |
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| Huge stones used as monuments |
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| People in the New Stone Age had a different relationship to plants and animals due primarily to |
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| Climatic changes and human innovations |
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| What is the relationship between farming and the growth of towns? |
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| The development of farming helped establish permanent settlements. |
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| Which area did humans reach 40,000 years ago? |
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| To study prehistory, historians rely on the work of archaeologists and |
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| Simple tools that were used for 2 million years |
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| STONE Age people to move around the world |
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| By 9000 B.C., people lived on all continents except |
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| Using large animals greatly improved the ability of people to |
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| One way prehistoric people adapted to their environments was to create tools to process food. |
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| Early people learned about fire from rubbing 2 rocks together. |
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| During the Mesolithic Era, people settled in new lands. |
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| The first human made shelters were pits in the ground with roofs of branches and leaves. |
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| Early people believed in gods such as the thunder god. |
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| Archaeologist who believed that bones found in East Africa in 1959 belonged to hominids |
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| A relative who lived in the past |
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| To divide among a group of people |
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| Process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
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| Type of bone used to build early houses |
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| A time of long periods of freezing weather |
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| Name means "southern ape" |
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