10 Questions
How did early humans primarily obtain food during the long period of human history mentioned in the text?
Scavenging and hunting animals
What is the estimated age of the first human-like creatures on Earth?
5.6 million years
What were most scholars initially skeptical about regarding early humans?
The ability to make stone tools or paint
What is one of the ways that the text suggests can help us understand early human history?
Discoveries of human fossils, stone tools, and cave paintings
From where does the evidence for human evolution come, according to the text?
Fossils of species of humans which have become extinct
What method can be used to directly date fossils?
Chemical analysis
Why were scholars initially reluctant to accept the connection between fossils and early humans?
Their belief in the Old Testament of the Bible
What significant event marked a landmark in the study of evolution?
The publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
What did the workmen find in the Neander valley in August 1856?
A skull and skeletal fragments
Why is the precise location of fossil finds important for dating?
To record the horizontal and vertical position of the find
Test your knowledge on the beginning of human existence, the emergence of human-like creatures, the evolution of modern humans, and the methods of obtaining food in early human history.
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