Key

Vocabulary

History’s

DetectivesHunter -

Gatherers

Early Humans

Neanderthals

vs.Homo Sapiens

Potpourri Spreading

OutSpirit

World

100

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Objects made and used by humans long ago.

Artifacts

100

Scientists who study physical materials such as

soil and rocks .

Geologists

100

Hunters and Gathers spent most of their time doing this.

Looking for food and trying to avoid

dangerous animals.

100

The study of how human beings behave and interact is

part of this science.

Anthropology

100

Both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens lived during the Old Stone Age, also known as

this.

Paleolithic Era

100

Tools and skills that people use to meet their

needs and wants.

Technology

100

When people leave their homeland to live somewhere

else.

Migration

100

The time before written records were created

Prehistory

200

Scientists who study human life in the past by examining

things left behind.

Archaeologists

200

These people move from place to place following food

sources.

Nomads

200

The discovery of these two skeletons led scientists to

believe human life started in East Africa.

Lucy and Ardi

200

They had complex language skills.

Homo sapiens

200

The remains of plants, feathers, bones and even

footprints.Fossils

200

People’s surroundings including climate, plants

and animals.

Environment

200

Wearing warmer clothing allowed early people to do this to their

environment.

Adapt

300

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Scientists would use this to determine the age of a

prehistoric artifact.

Radioactive Dating

300

The use of tools and this most improved the lives of

humans during the Stone Age.

Fire

300

The cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira proved

this about early humans.

They were capable of complex thoughts and actions.

300

Both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had burial practices that probably meant that they

believed in this.Life after death

300

Elements like beliefs and values that make up a way of

life.

Culture

300

As humans migrated, they had to _____ to many

different _______.

adapt / environments

300

Using sharpened blades to scrape flesh off of animal

bones is an example of this.

Technology

400

Scientists who would explain the differences between Neanderthals and Homo

sapiens.

Anthropologists

400

Hunter – Gatherers did not live in clans but in these.

Bands

400

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This made it possible for early humans to migrate to

colder climates.

Taming of fire

400

They first appeared about 100,000 years ago.

Homo sapiens

400

The Era during which tools were first developed.

Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Era.

400

Three ways fire improved the life of migrating people.

Warmth, cooking food, light at night, scaring off dangerous animals.

400

The belief that the natural world was filled with

spirits.

Animism

100

The earliest humans to bury their dead.

Neanderthals

200

These two things suggest that early people practiced

animism.

Burial practices and artwork

300

Prehistoric people created these to honor the spirits of the animals they hunted.

Cave paintings

400