Stone Ages

What marked the beginning of the Neolithic Period?

• People started farming

• People created stone tools

• People used fire

• People created religion

What does Paleolithic Mean?

• Study of Bones
• New Stone
• Old Stone
• Study of Stones

Why did the hunter-gatherers migrate?

• to find more resources
• to follow the herds of migrating animals
• to discover new lands and better food supplies
• all of the above

Which of the following was a major advancement for paleolithic people?

• Use of Fire

• Writing
• Farming
• Domestication

Historians call the time before writing:

• prewriting

• hominids

• domestication

• prehistory

The first modern humans are believed to have appeared in:

• North America

• Australia

• Europe

• Africa

Long periods of freezing weather is called:

• Neolithic Era

• Ice Ages

• land bridges

• surplus

How did people get food in the Paleolithic Era/Old Stone Age?

• Hunting and gathering

• Farming

• Going to the grocery store

• Trading

What is another name for the Neolithic Age?

• Old Stone Age

• New Stone Age

• Jurassic Times

• Before Common Era

What does it mean to domesticate animals?

• Training wild animals to be used by humans

• Chasing wild animals

• Leaving animals to be free of human control

• Raising humans for animal use