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PREHISTORIC IBERIA

Activities:
1) Answer these questions
a. What features developed some hominids that distinguished them from apes?

b. What is the name of all these changes?

c. What caused the human changes?

2) Match the related concepts:

a) Biped position 1) They came more intelligent and this made development of speech
possible, as well as thought and the ability to make tools
b) Brain growth
2)They could hold objects more easily
c) Opposable
thumb 3) Their anatomy changed and so they could use their hands to make
tools
d) Australopithecus
4)They were the first to make artistic represebtations
e) Homo Habilis
5)They buried their dead
f) Homo erectus
6)They were the first to make tools
g) Homo antecessor
7)They used tools, but did not make them
h) Homo
neanderthalensis 8)They made fire and used different tools, such as axes, knives, etc.
i) Homo sapiens 9)They were the first European people

3) Read the text about Homo antecessor and answer the questions
“In 1994, a team of archaeologists were excavating at the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca,
Burgos) and found the remains of animals, stone tools, and fruits fossils. Next to these remains, they
found the bones of sis different human individuals.
The researchers had found a camp inhabited by humans 800.000 years ago. Study of the bones showed
that it was a new species belonging to the first human inhabitants of Europe. This hominid, a common
ancestor of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, was named Homo antecessor and arrived in Europe from
Africa almost a million years ago.”
a) What did the archaeologists find?

b) When did the humans inhabit the site?

c) What was the name of the hominid species?

d) When did he come to Europe?

4) Relate these terms to their corresponding prehistorical periods:


Homo Antecessor / Neanderthal / Homo Sapiens / Los Millares / Argar / Atapuerca / Altamira

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5) Use the following words to complete the text:
Cardial Cantabria nomads Levante gathering animals
“During the Palaeolithic Age, human beings on the Iberian Peninsula lived from hunting, fishing and
_________________. The first inhabitants were __________ and lived in caves and shelters in open
air. There are some significant cave paintings in __________.
In Neolithic Age, people kept __________ and grew food. In the east of the Peninsula __________
ceramics are especially significant; in Andalucía they dyed the ceramics red. There are caves
paintings in the __________ area showing dancing and hunting scenes of animals and warriors in red
and black.

6) Identify the artistic style of these cave paintings from the Peninsula and answer the following
questions.

a) Which painting is polychrome-painted? Which one is monochrome?


b) What colors are used to paint the bison? Does it have an outline? What colour is it? What colour
can you appreciate in the scene on the right?
c) Which painting do you think is more three-dimensional? How does the author manage to transmit a
three-dimensional sense?
d) Where are human beings represented? Are they men or women? Why do you think so?
e) Where is a scene represented? What type of scene is it?
f) Which painting gives you information on the fauna of this age? Which one gives you information
on the customs of a prehistoric group?
g) Which figures are schematic? What details do they represent?
h) Which representation is realistic? What details can you distinguish?

7) Chose the correct word to complete the sentences:


a) In Spain, Megalithic constructions were rare/common __________
b) The village of Millares is in Ávila/Almería ___________
c) In the necropolis people had parties/buried their dead __________
d) The name of “Bell Baker” refers to the ceramic/bells __________ that people made

8) Answer the following questions


a) What are the three stages of the Metal Ages?

b) What is metallurgy?

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c) When did the Prehistoric Age end?

d) What did they make with bronze?

e) What economic activities were carried out in the Metal Age?

f) What products did people get from livestock?

g) How did trade start?

h) What role did women have in Metal Age?

9) Translate the verbs bellow. Then write the steps for obtaining a piece of metal in the correct
order:
a) Smelt the metal in a furnace
b) Pour the metal into the mould
c) Extract the ore
d) Remove the slang
10) Choose the correct word to complete the sentences:
a) In Spain, Megalithic constructions were rare/common
b) The village of Millares is in Ávila/Almería
c) The inhabitants made tools and ceramic/jewellery
d) In the necropolis, they had parties/buried their dead
e) The necropolis was square/round
f) The name “Bell Beaker” refers to ceramics /bells that the people made
11) Translate into Spanish
Hominids Stone polishing
Hominization Pottery
Cave art Woven textiles
Prehistoric remains Loom.
Middle Palaeolithic Deer
Upper Palaeolithic period Wild goats
Last ice age Seafood
Grave goods. Cardium pottery
Polychrome-painted Copper Age
Process of microlithization Bronze Age
Rock art Iron Age
Gathering scenes Bell Beaker culture
Fertile Crescent Earthenware vessels

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