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1. Can You Dig It? Innovation Nation Ice, Ice Baby Paleolithic is Terrific They Say You Want a Revolution 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

2. Scientists who unearth and study artifacts $100

3. Archaeologists

4. One of the techniques used for finding out how old an artifact is $200

5. Radiocarbon Dating Can be used to date organic matter up to 60,000 years old!

6. Mary and Louis Leakey found evidence of humans who lived during the Paleolithic period at this location $300

7. Olduvai Gorge And they also had a son named Richard!

8. One of the top ten archaeological discoveries was in Russia in 2007. What was it?Hint: Welephant $400

9. A Baby Wooly Mammoth

10. Daily Double Dr. Donald C. Johanson made this archaeological discovery in Hadar, Ethiopia. What did he name it, and why? $500

11. Lucy He named her Lucy after The Beatles’ song, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”

12. Innovations of Neolithic Farmers include…*There are at least 3, name 1 $100

13. The Plow, Training Oxen, Fertilization of Fields

14. Homo erectus was responsible for the innovation of the making of this innovation $200

15. Clothing(Be sure to check out their new Fall line-up in the Sears Catalogue)

16. The exchange of goods and ideas when cultures come in contact is known as this $300

17. Cultural Diffusion (basically, when you meet knew people, you learn new things)

18. The invention of irrigation systems by farmers promoted this $400

19. Food SurplusIn fact, the economy of any civilization depends on its farmers growing food surpluses. This allows for people to branch out into other means of making a living (carpenters, doctors, teachers, the guy who drives the ball picker-upper at the driving range etc…)

20. The invention of writing probably originated with priests who used “pictograms” to do this $500

21. Make records of many kinds They kept track of livestock, cloth, wheat, religious offerings, the King’s battle victories, legal codes, medical texts, landowners, merchants and observations of the stars (just to name a few)

22. How did early humans respond to the environmental changes of the Ice Age? $100

23. Moved to warmer places, keeping warm, clothing

24. As large glaciers formed, what happened to sea levels? $200

25. Sea levels dropped as the glaciers used up more and more water (To make an ice cube, you have to use some water…and these were some biiiig ice cubes)

26. As sea levels began to drop, what began to emerge? $300

27. Land BridgesIt is believed that this is how different areas of the world were discovered/ populated.

28. If there were to be another Ice Age, how would our civilization fair out? $400

29. It would be a natural disaster. The food supply would dry up, oceans would freeze over (killing all the fish), power outages.Basically, it would be a state of emergency and we’d be in serious trouble.

30. If the forming of glaciers lowered sea levels, can you explain the problem that exists today with the melting of the polar ice caps? $500

31. The melting of the polar ice caps is raising sea levels. If sea levels continue to rise, many parts of the world could be underwater in a matter of time.

32. These Paleolithic hunter-gatherers lived during the first quarter of the Paleolithic period. It is believed they lived in trees and had limited powers of speech. $100

33. Homo habilis Also known as “person with ability”

34. Daily Double Homo erectus, or “person who walks upright” are believed to have been Nomadic. What does this mean? Also, what Homo group does Homo erectus come after? $200

35. To use up the food supply in one place and then move on to another.Homo erectus came after Homo habilis.

36. We belong to this group of Homo $300

37. Homo sapiens Some people are split on whether or not it ends with us, or will we evolve into another classification of homo.

38. The Stone Age is divided into three periods: the first being the Paleolithic or “Old Stone”. What are the other two periods? Hint* the second means “middle stone” and the third means “new stone.” $400

39. 2. Mesolithic “Middle Stone”3. Neolithic “New Stone”

40. The Cro-Magnons, who completely replaced the Neanderthals, made many advances in tool making and weaponry. Artists of this group also created these… $500

41. Cave Paintings Some believe these paintings were for educational purposes. Others believe they are reaching out to the spiritual world.

42. The Neolithic Revolution is so named because of what? $100

43. Agriculture brought dramatic changes to civilization. Irrigation systems = food surplus = expanding economy

44. Neolithic farmers had three particular innovations. Name at least 2 of them – I will give you 3 guesses. $200

45. 1. The Plow2. Training Oxen3. Fertilization of Fields

46. Explain the “domestication of animals” and give at least 3 examples. $300

47. Controlling the use of animals for the benefit of civiliation. (keeping them contained/ tied up/ fenced in)Goats for meatDogs for huntingCattle, pigs, and sheep for meat, milk and clothing

48. The Bronze Age was so-named because bronze was very widely used. What made bronze such an important alloy? $400

49. It was easily cast and took a sharp cutting edge. See page 28 for description of the Bronze Age

50. As land ownership and property lines became established, this probably came into being as villages competed for land and water. $500