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Chapter 3, Lesson 1 Homework

Use your textbook – pgs.44-49 to answer these questions.  All questions must be answered or your homework will be considered incomplete.

The Big Picture

1. Scientists do not agree on how long humans have been on Earth.  What are the two opinions?

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Life Long Ago

2. Where are the oldest remains of human life found?   ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What examples of technology were found to have been used by early humans?

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4.  What is the name of the period of time until 12,000 years ago? Why is it called this?

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5. Name three ways that the technology of fire-building affected life?

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Life in the Old Stone Age

6. What happened when people began to work more closely together?

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Hunting and Gathering

7. What did the people of Border Cave use for shelter?  How did they make it more comfortable?

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8.  Name three advantages their location gave them.

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A Changing Culture

9. What precious object did the people of Border Cave bury with the baby?

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10. This object suggests two things about the people. Name them and what it means.

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11. What does the bead suggest about how far they traveled? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

MAP WORK – use map on page 46

12. What bodies of water lie on either side of Africa? __________________________________________________________

13. Which of them is the Border Cave closest to? __________________________