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| Dinosaurs die out about this many years ago. | 65 million years ago |
| The first human like hominids first appeared this many years ago. | 3 million years |
| (True/False) Early man lived the same time as dinosaurs. | False. |
| What two differences do man and ape have between them? | Apes can't walk upright and man can. Ape hands were also jointed differently and designed for grabbing and climbing. |
| The name of the earliest human discovered. | Lucy |
| Lucy was about 4 feet tall and about 50 pounds. What continent was she discovered? | Africa |
| Remains of living things (plants, animals, people). | Fossils |
| Remains of things that were made | Artifacts |
| In the Stone Age, tools were made of what? | Stone |
| The 2 job titles of early man were what? Remember, early man did not plant crops! | Hunters and Gatherers |
| While early human-like hominids were taller and smarter than Lucy’s people, they did not know how to do this easily which made moving camps difficult. | Make fire |
| After many years passed, early hominids were replaced by people called what? | Upright Man |
| Upright man knew how to do this task which early hominids had a difficult time doing. | Make fire. |
| Why was fire so important? | To cook food which reduced diseases from raw meat, a place to gather around at night which also kept many animals at a safe distance, and was used for a heat source. |
| Upright man improved their tools and weapons. What are two examples of these improvements? | Stone axes and knives. |
| Upright man was able to travel much easier than early hominids. Why? | Upright man was able to travel and produce fire easily wherever they went. |
| Upright man began to travel and populate the world. How were they able to travel if they didn't have a boat? | Upright man would walk across walkways of frozen ice (as the Ice Age was now here) which later became lakes and rivers. |
| How do scientists know where the Upright Man traveled? | Upright man would leave tools and weapons (aka artifacts) along their paths as they traveled. |
| Who were Ice Age men that were taller and smarter than previous men that used caves for homes and were great hunters which adds to the mystery as to why they disappeared in the early days? | Neanderthals |
| This group of people worked together to survive (which made living easier) and lived in Europe. They also were advanced in their hunting and crafts. | Cro-Magnon Man |
| These were found in caves that were often brown, yellow/tan, dark red, and coal black. They wood create these as they came of age, for religious purposes, or to leave a message for later man that would see it. | Cave paintings |
| This location holds many cave paintings discovered around 1940. | Lascaux, France |
