Mr. Reisenauer's Example 2

5. The study of humans of the past through what they left behind
7. Early relatives of modern-day humans
8. The first hominid to use stone tools. Lived 2 to 1.5 million years ago.
9. The time period before written records
10. Weapons, tools, and other objects dug up by archaeologists
11. Different groups of people and ways of life
12. People who study and write about the past
14. Modern Humans. The only hominid still alive today.
15. Early humans lived in caves or simple huts and were hunter-gatherers. Used basic stone and bone tools. 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.E

1. A pre-human hominid often called the “Southern Ape.” Lived 1.2 to 4 million years ago.
2. Larger and more intelligent than hominids that came before them, Neanderthals had a prominent brow region. Lived 133,000 to 32,000 years ago.
3. Era marks the beginning of agriculture when humans gave up the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to begin farming
4. Sometimes called “Upright Man.” Walked more upright than previous hominids. Lived 1.6 million to 80,000 years ago
6. Traces of plants and animals left in rock
11. An arrangement of events in the order they occurred
13. Any geologic period during which thick ice sheets cover large areas of land