LANDMARKS IN HUMANITIES 2026 FINAL PAPER
REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED
PRACTICE COLLECTION
◉ Burial:
Paleolithic ritual preparations.
Answer: -Tools and weapons and personal effects were found in
graves
-evidence of possibly fear of the dead or anticipation of the after
death
◉ Paleolithic:
cave paintings and carvings
-Found in
-Art.
Answer: - found in Africa, France, Australia, Indonesia and North
America
- Wall painting provides visual record images of long e-extinct
Animals and dif. species (hairy mammeth and woolly rhinoceros)
-scholar debate that the so called- cave art may have served as part
of virtual hunting ritual, totems and Shamans.
,-in the ancient world "art" was not intended primarily as
decorations as in today
-Enacted the hunt prior to the actual event by drawing the animals
"killing" by shooting arrows into the drawings
◉ The time period of the Evolution of Human culture.
Answer: The Evolution of human culture is difficult to date with any
precision, esp. because the tech of survival varied from region to
region over a long period of time
◉ Paleolithic:
Totems.
Answer: -symbols of male and female forces
-Heraldic tribal emblems
◉ Paleolithic:
Shamans.
Answer: -found in caves the were used for ceremonial chambers or
shrine where rituals where orchestrated
◉ Ice age.
Answer: -Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large
part of the earth's surface
,-by the end of Ice hunter-gatherers used fire to provide safety,
warmth and means of preparing food
-covered the area (N) of equator
◉ The effect, Ice Age had on the Paleolithic people.
Answer: -were forced to migrate, following there prey and adapt to
climate changes
◉ Mesolithic Cultures.
Answer: -Plant and animal domestication
-following the end of the ICE AGE
◉ Neolithic Culture.
Answer: -Transformation of gatherer to agriculture-herding phase
-Marked the dev. of human social organization by shifting from
nomadic to sedentary life
-Farming and food production
-Villages with mud- and limestone-faced huts
-Polished bone and stone tools
-Concern with earth's fertility; seasonal cycle
-Cycladic figure (sculptures)
-Architecture
, -animal raising
◉ Neolithic sites excavated in-
-jericho
-Japanese.
Answer: -Southwest Asia ( near the east of the middle, Israel ,
Jordan, Turkey, Iran and Iraq
-East Asia (China and Japan) and Meso-Americans villages with # of
mud and limestones-faced huts (earliest architecture)
-Jericho, present day Israel, massive def. walls surrounded the town.
Harvested wheat with stone sickles.
-Japanese communities seem to have produced the world oldest
pottery- hand- coiled and fired clay vessels
◉ Farming Neolithic Age:Culture, Crops and animals?
Asia, China, america's.
Answer: -The earth's fertility and the seasonal cycle were the
principle concerns of the farming culture
-Believed the seasonal cycle was associated with birth,death and
regeneration
-(Asia)Wheat and Barley
-(China)RIce
REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED
PRACTICE COLLECTION
◉ Burial:
Paleolithic ritual preparations.
Answer: -Tools and weapons and personal effects were found in
graves
-evidence of possibly fear of the dead or anticipation of the after
death
◉ Paleolithic:
cave paintings and carvings
-Found in
-Art.
Answer: - found in Africa, France, Australia, Indonesia and North
America
- Wall painting provides visual record images of long e-extinct
Animals and dif. species (hairy mammeth and woolly rhinoceros)
-scholar debate that the so called- cave art may have served as part
of virtual hunting ritual, totems and Shamans.
,-in the ancient world "art" was not intended primarily as
decorations as in today
-Enacted the hunt prior to the actual event by drawing the animals
"killing" by shooting arrows into the drawings
◉ The time period of the Evolution of Human culture.
Answer: The Evolution of human culture is difficult to date with any
precision, esp. because the tech of survival varied from region to
region over a long period of time
◉ Paleolithic:
Totems.
Answer: -symbols of male and female forces
-Heraldic tribal emblems
◉ Paleolithic:
Shamans.
Answer: -found in caves the were used for ceremonial chambers or
shrine where rituals where orchestrated
◉ Ice age.
Answer: -Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large
part of the earth's surface
,-by the end of Ice hunter-gatherers used fire to provide safety,
warmth and means of preparing food
-covered the area (N) of equator
◉ The effect, Ice Age had on the Paleolithic people.
Answer: -were forced to migrate, following there prey and adapt to
climate changes
◉ Mesolithic Cultures.
Answer: -Plant and animal domestication
-following the end of the ICE AGE
◉ Neolithic Culture.
Answer: -Transformation of gatherer to agriculture-herding phase
-Marked the dev. of human social organization by shifting from
nomadic to sedentary life
-Farming and food production
-Villages with mud- and limestone-faced huts
-Polished bone and stone tools
-Concern with earth's fertility; seasonal cycle
-Cycladic figure (sculptures)
-Architecture
, -animal raising
◉ Neolithic sites excavated in-
-jericho
-Japanese.
Answer: -Southwest Asia ( near the east of the middle, Israel ,
Jordan, Turkey, Iran and Iraq
-East Asia (China and Japan) and Meso-Americans villages with # of
mud and limestones-faced huts (earliest architecture)
-Jericho, present day Israel, massive def. walls surrounded the town.
Harvested wheat with stone sickles.
-Japanese communities seem to have produced the world oldest
pottery- hand- coiled and fired clay vessels
◉ Farming Neolithic Age:Culture, Crops and animals?
Asia, China, america's.
Answer: -The earth's fertility and the seasonal cycle were the
principle concerns of the farming culture
-Believed the seasonal cycle was associated with birth,death and
regeneration
-(Asia)Wheat and Barley
-(China)RIce
