Social Studies

Question 1

Describe the new technology allowing early humans to start hunting small animals to large animals

Answer 1

They created tools made out of stone to hunt animal. These tools were large and sharp so they could take down bigger animals

Question 2

What event caused the scientists to focus their search of the origins of human life in Africa

Answer 2

In 1960 archaeologists discovered fossils in Olduvai Gorge in East Africa. They named the fossil Homo hablis, and it turned out to be 1.75 million years old

Question 3

Describe three ways in which stone age humans adapted to their environment during the last ice age

Answer 3

They used the bones and skin of the mammoths they hunted to make shelter and clothing in the cold weather. And they created fire to make themsevle warmer, and to cook meat

Question 4

Which method that scientists used to date fossils and artifacts do you think would be the most accurate

Answer 4

They used Radioactive dating. Rodioactive dating can measure the time of how old it is.