UNIT ONE: EARLY MAN AND THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Study Guide
Terms to know:
Prehistory
Archaeology
Anthropology
Artifact
Fossil
Radiocarbon Dating
Thermo-luminescence
Paleo
Ardipithecus ramidus
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus robustus
Homo habilus
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens (Archaic)
Homo sapiens neandertalensis
Homo sapiens sapiens
Paleolithic Age
Mesolithic Age
Neolithic Age
“Copper Age”
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Meso
Neo
Lithic
Domestication
Systematic agriculture
Tuber
Artisan
Surplus
5 to 4 million BCE
4.2 to 3.9 million BCE
4 to 2.7 million BCE
3 to 2 million BCE
2.2 to 1.6 million BCE
2.2 to 1.6 million BCE
2 million to 400,000 BCE
400,000 to 200,000 BCE
200,000 to 30,000 BCE
200,000 BCE to present
200,000 to 10,000 BCE
10,000 to 7000 BCE
8000 to 4000 BCE
4000 to 3000 BCE
3000 to 1200 BCE
1000 BCE
Important questions:
1. How do we learn about history when there is no written record?
2. How can modern CSI techniques help us to learn about the past?
3. What is the name of the best Ardipithecus ramidus fossil?
4. What does Australopithecus anamensis mean?
5. What is the name of the best Australopithecus afarensis fossil?
6. What is the name of the best Australopithecus africanus fossil?
7. Who was the “handy man?”
8. Who was the “upright man?”
9. How did technology develop from the Paleolithic Age through the Iron Age?
10. What were the gender roles in Paleolithic life? Neolithic life?
11. What types of housing was used in the Paleolithic Age?
12. When did humans (or human ancestors) master fire, and how is fire useful? What was the
importance of mastering fire?
13. What conditions must be present in order for societies to create art?
14. What were the two main developments that define the Neolithic Revolution?
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Who domesticated which animals and when? Crops?
How did the Agricultural Revolution lead to community living?
What was the first city?
When was Catal Huyuk formed?
How many people lived in Catal Huyuk?
What were the houses like in Catal Huyuk?
How many crops did the citizens of Catal Huyuk grow?
Explain how surplus leads to advancements in technology.
How do we know that the people of Catal Huyuk were religious?
What were the effects of the Neolithic Revolution?
What marked the end of the Neolithic Age?
Thinking like an Historian
26. What are the five main themes we will focus on in this class?
27. What questions do we ask of the past?
28. Which two questions do we care more about? Why?
29. What are the two major types of shifts in history?
30. In what two ways can we use the past?