Study Guide: Chapter 1 Test
Directions: Use these questions to help you review chapter one.
Locate the answer in the text or come up with your own answer
based upon your understanding of the information.
1. What are three types of social scientists we’ve learned
about?
2. People who study ancient history make educated guesses
called _____.
3. Social scientists are scholars who study
4. How do archaeologists study the past? What questions do
they ask?
5. What is a geographer?
6. What are some examples of an artifact?
7. What type of social scientist would be most interested in an
artifact with writing on it?
8. What type of social scientist would be most interested in
how prehistoric people used their environment to survive?
9. Archaeologist is to artifact as historian is to _____________.
10. What unique challenge does the study of prehistoric history
present?
11. Where have cave paintings been found?
12. What can be determined from prehistoric cave paintings of
animals?
13. What evidence supports why scientists think prehistoric
artists built scaffolding in caves?
14. What type of paintings is rare in prehistoric cave art
discoveries?
15. What is a ritual?
16. What do many scientists believe about handprints found on
cave paintings?
17. How do scientists believe that prehistoric cave artists made
different colored paints?
18. What did prehistoric artists used engraving tools for?
19. How might prehistoric artists have used hollow bird bones?
20. Why are cave paintings like the ones at Lascaux, France,
valuable sources of information?
21. Essay Practice: How might the three different
social scientists we’ve learned about study and interpret
the past?
22. Essay Practice: In what ways are social scientists
like detectives?
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