Grade 6- Chapter 1. Early People

4. change to suit a new purpose
7. American paleoanthropologist best known for his discovery of “Lucy,” one of the most complete skeletons of Australopithecus afarensis known, in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974.
9. an extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between c. 120,000–35,000 years ago.
11. the species to which all modern human beings belong.
13. a creation, a new device or process, resulting from study and experimentation.
15. what a thing is, or what a thing is made of.
18. being smart
20. two of the foremost fossil hunters of the twentieth century, are known for their many discoveries relating to early human evolution. Donald Johanson, in full
21. to allow to be seen: reveal; display.
22. the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization

1. fill with people or supply with inhabitants.
2. the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
3. Brunet French paleontologist who announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumaï.
5. the area in which something exists or lives.
6. a time before written accounts of events
8. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
9. a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
10. a single thickness, coat or fold.
12. written or printed mark, letter, etc.
14. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
16. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
17. discussion or argument
19. the remains, or an impression of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil.