Early Man
Early Man
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Choose the Early Man & Stone Age section, then click on the first link
Go to Stone Age Habitats
1. Where were some of early man’s first habitats?
2. From the first chart, did Neanderthals live in caves?
3. Where was the oldest habitat (2,000,000 B.P.) found?
4. What kind of people probably lived at Terra Amata?
5. How do we know that people at Terra Amata used fire?
Stone Age Hand Axes at the bottom
6. What were the two earliest tools?
Go back to the links and click on Science Odyssey - Human Evolution Activity
7. According to the activity, which human ancestor came after Australopithecus?
8. What does Homo habilis mean?
9. Where was Homo erectus first found?
10. Which hominid first use fire?
11. Which hominid had a larger brain than Homo sapiens?
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12. Who found Lucy?
13. Who found the 1st australopithecine specimen?
14. What was the 1st australopithecine called, and where was it found?
15. What different evidence did Mary Leaky find that proved hominids walked
Upright 3.5 million years ago?
Go back to the links and go down to and click on Flints & Stones Real Life in Prehistory
Meet the Shaman
16. What did the shaman hunt a long time ago?
17. What other kinds of foods did they gather?
18. What did they hunt with harpoons?
19. What part of animals was used to make shelters?
20. What stone was used to make tools?
21. What did the craftsman make from an antler?
22. What was done to animal skins before making clothes?
23. What was used to light up caves?
24. Infer why torches would not be a good idea.
25. What colors were used to paint?
26. What evidence is there of ceremonies at burials?
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Burial and Mysticism
27. What evidence for a belief in afterlife was found at Bogebakken cemetery?
28. Infer why the young man at the burial cave in South Wales was thought to have been a female.
29. What was found at Gonnersdorf?
30. What is a common feature of many painted caves?
Archaeologist
31. What caused Britain to be cut off from the continent?
32. What animals came across the land bridge to Britain?
33. What evidence is there that the sea level was once lower?
34. What kind of weapons are shown in the cave painting of the cooperative hunting party?
35. What do archaeologists sometimes find in animal bones?
36. What natural sweetener was available?
37. What limited the possessions one could accumulate?
38. What is making a stone tool called?
39. What were two early methods of preserving meat?
40. Why do they think early stone age man made clothes from skins?
Cave Walls
41. What animals were found on cave walls?
42. In what cave was an oil lamp found?