Chapter 1: The First Humans

Anthropology

________ is the study of human life and culture.

Archaeology

________ is the study of past societies through an analysis of what people have left behind.

Anthropologists

________ use artifacts and the remains of humans- human fossils- to determine how people lived their lives.

Archaeologists

________ dig up and examine artifacts- tools, pottery, paintings, weap- ons, buildings, and household items- of early peoples.

Copper

________ was the first metal to be used in making tool.

Neanderthals

________ were first found in the Neander Valley in Germany.

Domestication

The ________ (adaptation for human use) of animals added a steady source of meat, milk, and wool.

Mesoamericans

________ (inhabitants of present- day Mexico and Central America) grew beans, squash, and maize (corn) between 7000 and 5000 B.C.

Ice Age conditions

Having fire to create a source of heat was especially important when ________ descended on the Paleolithic world.

Paleolithic Age

The term ________ is used to designate the early period of human history (approximately 2, 500, 000 to 10, 000 B.C .)

Çatal Hüyük

________, located in modern- day Turkey, was an even larger community.

Temples

________ and pyramids were built as places for worship or sacrifice, or for the burial of kings and other important people.

Australopithecines

Called ________, or "southern apes, "by their discoverer, Donald Johanson, they flourished in eastern and southern Africa.

Paleolithic

________ is Greek for "old stone, "and is sometimes called the Old Stone Age.

Paleolithic people

________ were nomads (people who moved from place to place), because they had no choice but to follow animal migrations and vegetation cycles.

Ice Age conditions

________ posed a serious threat to human life, and the ability to adapt was crucial to human survival.