The Prehistoric Ages

1. Archaeologists traditionally divide prehistory into three main periods, named after the main technologies used at the time. What age came the last?

2. What is the oldest race in human lineage?

3. The first evidence of Homo sapiens, modern humans, is from which continent?

4. Homo sapiens neanderthals were named after the Neander valley, where their remains were found. In which country is that valley?

5. Cro-Magnons were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe. Where were their remains found?

6. What is the name of Venus figurine estimated to have been made in 30,000 BCE?

7. What is the name of the most famous Australopithecus, a fossilized skeleton from Ethiopia dated to 3.2 million years ago?

8. Which of the following Stone Age subgroups is most closely associated with human agricultural development?

9. On which island Dutch physician Eugene Dubois located the first examples of what he called 'Pithecanthropus erectus', also known as Homo erectus in 1891?

10. What was the Neolithic Age?

11. Who came up with the theory of human evolution?

12. Around what year the prehistoric period comes to an end?