Early Humans: Migration, Foraging & Adaptation — Drills · Grade 9 Social Studies
Chapter: Historical Inquiry & Early SocietiesWhat these drills covers
By the end of Early Humans: Migration, Foraging & Adaptation you should be able to:
- I can connect migration with evidence.
- I can explain a historical connection using relevant evidence and qualify the conclusion.
4 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.
Vocabulary used: context, evidence, interpretation, foraging, archaeology.
Problem 1
Answer and explanation
A migration explanation needs dated evidence and a plausible route. Similar objects alone cannot identify a language, belief, or biological ancestry. Combine archaeological and other appropriate evidence while stating the uncertainties in the reconstruction.
Problem 2
Answer and explanation
A tool’s form indicates possible uses; wear marks, residues, and its archaeological setting can test those uses. Do not assume a sharp object was only a weapon or infer fixed gender roles from its shape. Evidence must connect the object to an activity.
Problem 3
Answer and explanation
Moving regularly does not establish that people lacked property arrangements, social rules, art, or institutions. Describe the particular evidence of settlement duration and resource use; avoid treating every forager as a wandering individual without a community.
Problem 4
Answer and explanation
A strong reconstruction distinguishes direct evidence from a plausible interpretation. Researchers may agree on the age of an object while disagreeing about its social meaning. New evidence can revise the explanation without making all interpretations equally well supported.