Starter quiz
- What are people who study human history and artefacts found in the ground called?
- archaeologists ✓
- mathematicians
- scientists
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- What is the period in history called before written records and writing systems were used?
- predrawing
- prehistory ✓
- prewriting
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- What is it called when the Earth becomes very cold for a long period of time?
- Cold Age
- Ice Age ✓
- Snow Age
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- How many Ice Ages have happened in Britain?
- None
- One
- Several ✓
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- Which picture shows a woolly mammoth?
- What are modern humans called?
- Homo antecessor
- Homo neanderthalensis
- Homo sapiens ✓
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Exit quiz
- A hunter-gatherer...
- hunts animals and gathers berries and nuts for food ✓
- plants seeds and gathers in the crops for food
- farms animals and gathers them in during the winter
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- The modern humans who appeared in Britain at the end of the last Ice Age were?
- farmers
- hunter-gatherers ✓
- shoppers
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- Stone tools made from flint have been discovered in areas where flint is not found. What do archaeologists believe this shows?
- Homo sapiens moved around Britain and were nomadic ✓
- Homo sapiens settled next to flint mines
- Homo sapiens used other materials instead of flint
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- Which statement describes the presence of humans in Britain?
- Evidence suggests modern humans have lived in Britain continuously.
- Evidence suggests modern humans came and left Britain before they settled. ✓
- Evidence suggests modern humans have always lived in Britain.
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- Starting with the longest ago, put the events into the order that they happened.
- 1⇔Early humans first arrived in Britain.
- 2⇔Homo sapiens first arrived in Britain.
- 3⇔Homo sapiens settled in Britain.
- How long ago did homo sapiens settle in Britain?
- 12,000 years ago ✓
- 40,000 years ago
- 900,000 years ago
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Key learning points
- Dating different human remains suggests the presence of modern humans in Britain has been brief and sporadic.
- It has only become continuous at the end of the last Ice Age, c.12,000 years ago.
- The modern humans who appeared in Britain were highly adaptable hunter-gatherers.
- Flints found far from where they were acquired show that they moved around Britain far more than the Neanderthals had.
Common misconception
That our knowledge of the past is factual.
Explain that our understanding of the past is based on evidence that helps to build up a picture. New discoveries are made all the time.
Keywords
Homo sapiens - the only surviving group of humans is the Homo sapiens
Ice age - an Ice Age is when Earth becomes very cold for a long period of time
Hunter-gatherer - hunter-gatherers hunt animals and gather berries and nuts
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