Analyze hunter-gatherer Paleolithic societies (Sapiens evolution out of East Africa c. 200,000-70,000 BCE, migration globally, fire and tool use) and the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000-8,000 BCE) and its consequences (settlement, surplus, kingship, organized religion, writing-systems origin)
Exercise Difficulty 1 ~3 min hist.g6.f.ex_47

Matching

Prompt

Match each tool tradition to its rough time period: (a) Oldowan; (b) Acheulean; (c) Mousterian; (d) Aurignacian.

How it's presented
mode text
Answer criteria
type matching
pairs
a
c. 2.6 million - 1.7 million BCE (Homo habilis)
b
c. 1.76 million - 130,000 BCE (Homo erectus)
c
c. 160,000 - 40,000 BCE (Neanderthals)
d
c. 43,000 - 26,000 BCE (Sapiens Upper Paleolithic)
Hints
  1. Earliest to latest: Oldowan → Acheulean → Mousterian → Aurignacian.
  2. Each tradition associated with a hominid species.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Treating all stone tools as 'just stone tools'
  • Forgetting Neanderthal Mousterian tradition