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Human origins, migration, hunter-gatherer life, domestication, and the Neolithic Revolution for the New York Grade 6 Eastern Hemisphere sequence.
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Archaeologists working on human origins have found the oldest remains of early humans in which part of the world?
Historians use one word for the movement of early human groups out of Africa and into new regions of Asia and Europe. What is that word?
In the long spread of early humans across the world, which region did people reach last?
Paleolithic bands did not stay in one place for long. What reason do historians give for their constant movement?

How did people of the Paleolithic era get nearly all of their food?
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers moved from camp to camp instead of staying in one location year-round. What term describes this way of life?
An archaeologist digs at a Paleolithic camp and finds chipped stone tools, animal bones with cut marks, and ash from a fire. What activity does this evidence best support?

What kind of evidence do historians depend on to describe how Paleolithic people lived?
Historians divide early human history into periods based on tools and food. Which period came first, the Paleolithic era or the Neolithic Revolution?
What change in how people got their food is called the Neolithic Revolution?
About how long ago did the Neolithic Revolution begin?
What does domestication mean when historians describe the Neolithic era?
Which conditions drew the earliest farming villages of the Eastern Hemisphere to particular places?
Why did farming lead groups that had been nomadic to build permanent settlements?
A site holds mud-brick houses with storage pits, grinding stones, and sheep bones. What kind of community left these remains?

Archaeologists found this blade at a Neolithic site. What does it show the people there were doing?

What does the term agricultural surplus describe?
In a Neolithic village, what did an agricultural surplus make possible for the first time?
In one Neolithic village some people made pottery full time, others wove cloth, and others worked metal. What is this arrangement called?

How did the shelters of Neolithic villagers differ from those of Paleolithic bands?
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