WH Quiz 1 Packet Prehistory

Beginning of Man

Thought to have started in what?

Found what?

Dated bu use of what?

Africa

artifacts, fossils and human remains

carbon- 14 dating

Australopithecus

how long ago?

First human-like creature to what?

Who found and what?

4 to 1 million

walk upright

Mary Leakey found stuff in 1978 Africa

Donald Johanson found Lucy, first A skeleton

Homo Habilis

how long ago

Habilis means

Made what, for what

known as

2.5 to 1.5 million

man of skill

tools for cutting meat and cracking bones

handy man

Homo Erectus

lived how long ago?

Remains in

considered to be the

found new way of using, like

first to control and create what

created communication like

1.6 million to 30,000

Africa Asia and europe

upright man

stone tools

digging, scrapping

fire

spoken/ oral languages

Homo Sapiens

they were common

lived when

blank and blank are considered the 1st two early homo sapiens

traveled from

known as

humans

100,000 to 40,000

Cro- Magnon and Neantherthal

From Africa to Asia, Europe and the Americas

wise men

Cro- Magnon

found in

considered fully

created

studied what

europe

modern humans

cave art

animals and stalked their prey

Neantherthals

found in

1st to have

battle who for what

looked like

Europe South West Asia

ritual burials

cro-magnon and food and land

muscular build look like cavemen

Lives of Early Humans

lived in

were blank

followed what

dependent on

men were

women were

in constant search for

clans

nomadic

food and animals

plants and animals

hunters

gathered

shelter and foods

Cave Painting

oldest found when

found where

possibly part of what

30,000 to 40,000 years ag

Europe, Africa, Australia

religious ceremonies