When did humans begin to use bows and arrows?

• the Historic Age

• the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)

• the Mesolithic Age

• the Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

Once humans learned to grow crops for food and settle in one place, they had time for _______________________.

• hunting larger animals

• arts and crafts like painting and pottery

• a more nomadic lifestyle

• gathering plants, nuts and berries for food

What is an advantage of humans living near rivers and streams?

• taming animals

• hunting and gathering

• making fire

• transportation

What did Louis Leakey find that made him decide to become an anthropologist and archaeologist?

• birds

• cave paintings

• stone arrowheads and tools

• a human body frozen in a glacier

Which of the following has NEVER been found in a cave painting?

• trees

• snakes

• lions

• panthers

Excavations at the town of Catalhoyuk in Turkey shows that the people who lived there possibly entered their houses this way--

• through underground tunnels

• by ladders

• by boats

• through the holes on the roof

What sharp stone was most used by early people to make arrowheads, scrapers and knives?

• marble

• flint

• magma

• limestone

Louis Leakey's discoveries showed that the oldest evidence of human life found so far comes from --

• Africa

• Asia

• North America

• Mexico

Which of the following was NOT found with Otzi, the human body found preserved in a glacier?

• grains of wheat in a container

• a copper axe

• a fur hat

• a spear

Anthropologists think humans probably first used fire to _____________.

• cook their food

• frighten away animals

• give light to their campsite

• keep themselves warm