Prehistory: the Paleolithic period

History is the science that studies humankind’s present. To do this, it analyses the political, economic, social, cultural and artistic aspects of past civilisations. True. False.

The invention of writing and the transition to the historical era occurred in some river-based civilisations around 3250 BCE.The other civilisations remained in the prehistoric era until the year 1000 BCE. True. False.

There were no written documents in prehistory. As a result, prehistorians need to use other sources to find out about this period, which can be ... and material remains (bones, tools, ceramics, etc.) left by primitive humans, and the plants and animals of their time. wood. human. plants. animal.

Most of these remains are buried underground, so prehistorians need to carry out slow and costly excavations to find them, which involves removing layers of soil. Which science studies this?. Climatology. Archeology. History. Geology.

For centuries people believed that the first humans were similar to modern day humans. However, nowadays scientists agree with the theory of evolution, proposed by the British scientist, ..., at the end of the 19th century. Albert Einstein. Charles Darwin. Isaac Newton. Louis Pasteur.

According to the theory of evolution, human beings evolved from amphibious, a mammal species that appeared around 65 million years ago. True. False.

Over 5 million years ago, primates split into two groups: ..., which include present day human beings and their ancestors; and large apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas. hominids. habilis. sapiens. erectus.

Hominids got their particular features over a long period of evolution. This process, called hominisation, began ... in at an uncertain date that prehistorians place between 4.4 and 7 million years ago. Asia. Europe. America. Africa.

Hominids differ from large apes because of a set of biological changes: (choose the right ones). The development of opposable thumbs. Bipedalism. The increase in the size of the skull. The increase in the size of the brain. The increase in the size of the forehead. The development of language. The development of stronger jaws. The increase in the size of the hands.

Hominisation may have been caused by a climatic change, leading to a transformation from a humid tropical environment, with forests, to a savannah environment that was drier and treeless. Some primates, which until then had lived in trees and fed primarily from plants, had to come down to the ground and look for new food sources. True. False.

They lived 4,2 - 1,5 million years ago. They were the first bipeds. We are talking about…. Australopithecus. Homo neanderthalensis. Homo erectus. Homo Habilis.

Their names reflects their ability to make basic tools. We are talking about…. Australopithecus. Homo neanderthalensis. Homo erectus. Homo Habilis.

They live from 125 000 - 30 000 B.C. They lived in Europe during the Ice Age. We are talking about…. Australopithecus. Homo neanderthalensis. Homo erectus. Homo Habilis.

They live from 1,9 - 1,4 million years ago. They were the first hominids to use fire and wear animal skins. We are talking about…. Homo sapiens. Homo neanderthalensis. Homo erectus. Homo habilis.

There are remains of this type of homo in Atapuerca (Burgos). We are talking about…. Homo sapiens. Homo neanderthalensis. Homo erectus. Homo antecesor.

Put these activities in chronological order (from the earliest to latest). 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th.

Match these hominids with the activities they developed. Australopithecus. Homo erectus. Homo neanderthalensis. Homo Sapiens. Homo antecesor.

The ... era covers the time since the appearance of the first hominids, around 4.4 million years ago, until the discovery of agriculture and livestock farming, in 10000 BCE. Palaeolithic. Neolithic. Bronze. Copper.

In the Palaeolithic era, there was a ... economy what meant that the resources taken from nature were not replaced. productive. predatory.

The predatory economy made humans ..., meaning that they had to be on the move all the time, following the animals that they hunted. nomadic. sedentary.

In the Paleolithic era, during the winter they lived in the open air, near rivers and in tents made from animal skin or in huts built from tree trunks and branches. When summer came, they took refuge inside natural caves, where they ate the food they had collected, prepared the animal skins to cover themselves and made their weapons and tools. True. False.

What was discovered around 1.5 million years ago and allowed people to have light and heat, use the inside of caves, scare wild animals, cook food and dry pelts?. Wheel. Fire. Biface. Stone tools.

Fire also helped social relationships, because the members of a tribe would gather around the fire to share their daily activities and divide up tasks. True. False.

Although we are not certain about their religious beliefs, it seems that there could have been: Belief in the power of natural elements, Magic rituals and ... Worshipping the dead. Worshipping the king. Worshipping the past. Worshipping the future.

The first artistic manifestations made by humans date back to portable art and cave painting from Palaeolithic times. True. False.

Palaeolithic paintings, called cave paintings, are found across Europe from the Iberian Peninsula all the way to Siberia. Look at the map and check the country list in order to choose the right places where cave painting were found. Spain. Italy. Greece. Denmark. Turkey. France. United Kingdom. Ireland.

In the Palaeolithic society was organised into tribes, each of which had ... people who were related by family ties. 20 to 30. 40 to 50. 5 to 10. 50 to 60.

In portable art, they made ... figurines or small statues of women with very feminine attributes, which could suggest fertility worship. Athena. Hera. María. Venus.

The first humans lived in America, in areas with a hot climate. However, when they moved into Europe and Asia, they had to adapt to the alternation of glacial periods with very cold temperatures and extensive areas of land covered with ice, and interglacial periods, when climate and temperatures were milder. True. False.

... tools were made using the technique called carving. This consisted of hitting one stone against another to make axes or bifaces, arrowheads and knives. Soil. Wood. Ice. Stone.