Name_____________________
Date_______Per.____
Study Guide
Early Humans and Societies
Vocabulary: Write the definition.
1. Prehistory:
2. Artifacts:
3. Primary Source:
4. Homo habilis:
5. Paleolithic Era
6. Hunters-gatherers:
7. Mesolithic Era:
8. Domestication:
9. Land bridge:
10. Megaliths:
11. Neolithic Era:
12. Neolithic Revolution:
13. Homo sapien:
Use the word bank to fill in the blanks on the next page. The words may be used
more than one time.
Africa
agriculture
hunter-gatherers
artifacts
cave clothes
Homo habilis
megaliths
tools
prehistory
settlements
cave-painting
past
domestication
Homo sapiens
land-bridge
primary source
Neolithic Revolution
shelters
language
Neolithic Era
stone
14. The definition of history is the study of the ________________________.
15. An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event is
called a _________________________________________.
16. If you were an early human and no wood or foliage to build a shelter, you would
probably search for a ___________________ to use as your shelter.
17. A strip of land connecting two continents that likely allowed humans to migrate to
Asia and the Americas is called a _______________ ___________________.
18. If you were lost in the forest and you had to adapt to a new environment and way of
living, one of the first things you would want do is to make a ___________________.
19. Early humans worked together catching and collecting their food in small groups.
Many small tribes in remote areas of the world today, continue to catch and forage for
their food. These groups are known as ________________- _______________________.
20. When archeologists first discovered the fossil remains of the hominid
Australopithecus, they were found on the continent _____________________.
21. As early humans migrated out of Africa they experienced much colder climates
requiring them to adapt to their new environment. Possibly the first thing they would
make would be ______________________________ and ______________________.
22. _____________________________was the first hominid to use ________. These
________ were probably made of _____________________.
23. The New Stone Age is also known as the _____________________________.
24. ____________________________developed by Homo sapiens because of these
situations: hunting purposes, distribution of food, and the formation of new relationships.
25. _________________________were the most likely the first shelters of early humans.
26. Scientists believe that the earliest humans migrated out of _____________________
to other parts of the world.
27. Science has given the hominids special names such as Australopithecus, Homo
habilis, Homo erectus and Homo sapien. Circle the correct name for modern humans.
28. During the Neolithic period, (the New Stone Age), early human farmers began to
build permanent _________________________ because they needed to settle in one
place to tend to their crops. This was the beginning of what is now known as
___________________________.
29. Object created and used by humans are called___________________.
30. _______________ _______________________was a very special art that the earliest
humans used to teach, express themselves and worship their gods.
31. Early hominids who first used stone tools were called_________________________.
32. The time before writing was invented is called __________________________.
33. Huge stones that served as monuments as seen at Stonehenge in England, are called
_______________________.
34. People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants and seeds to survive were called,
_________________ -__________________________.
35. The process of changing over from food gathering to food producing by modern
humans is called the____________________ _____________________.
36. Humans gradually better adapted to their environment by changing plants and
animals to make them more useful to them. This is called _______________________.