Across
- 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
Down
- 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