Social Studies - 2019-20
WHI.2a - Hunter-Gatherer Societies
The student will apply social science skills to understand the period from the Paleolithic Era to the agricultural revolution by
a) explaining the impact of geographic environment on hunter-gatherer societies;
BIG IDEAS
Do the benefits of innovation outweigh the costs?
How does our environment affect us? How do we affect it?
UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARD
Life in early hunter-gatherer societies was shaped by the physical environment.
ESSENTIALS
Homo sapiens emerged in East Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago.
Homo sapiens migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas.
Early humans were hunters and gatherers whose survival depended on the availability of wild plants and animals.
KEY VOCABULARY
Terms
Continents (2a)
nomad (2a)
adaptation (2a)
hominid (2a)
Paleolithic Era (2b)
hunter-gatherers (2b)
clan (2b)
Neolithic Era (2c)
Domestication (2c)
Neolithic societies (2c)
artifact (2d)
archaeology (2d)
fossil (2d)
Carbon 14 dating (2d)
Bronze Age (2d)
Places
Eurasia (2a)
England (2d)
Aleppo (2d)
Jericho (2d)
Catal Hoyuk (2d)
Anatolia (2d)
Stonehenge (2d)