Early Humans Breakout
Congratulations! Your archeology group is on the brink of making a new discovery about Early Humans! Your reward money is prized at $1,000,000! However, you cannot claim your prize money until you prove you have what it takes to solve some difficult puzzles! Can you beat the clock to claim your one million dollars??? Give it your best shot!
5 Letter Word Lock Puzzle
Let's examine these early human skulls!
Read the stories on this site and information here about the types of early humans and then answer each question to solve the word lock puzzle. Unscramble your answers to make a five letter word related to this topic!
1. Where were the first prehistoric human beings said to live?
K. lodges
L. huts
M. caves
2. Why did Homo Habilis hominids have a clear advantage over other hominids?
T. They developed early on
U. They had larger bodies and brains.
V. Their tools were more advanced.
3. How did Homo Erectus hominids become even more adept at survival?
F. Because they banded together to hunt and gather
G. Because their tools were so advanced
H.Because they discovered fire
4. How did the Cro-Magnon population explode?
N.New technologies dramatically increased the amount of food available
O. New farming techniques dramatically increased the amount of food available
P. New hunting gathering techniques dramatically increased the amount of food available
5. Which hominid spread to every continent across the entire planet?
A.Homo Sapiens Sapiens
B. Neanderthals
C. Homo Sapiens
10 Digit Number Lock Puzzle
Perhaps the world's most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape "Lucy" was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found. Her discovery in the 1970s made history. Use this article to solve the number lock! Look carefully for numbers in the information and put them together to create a 10 digit number combination. This is a tricky one!
Hints: Don't use the numbers found in dates! No decimals or fractions either. Numbers may not be a "quantity."
4 Digit Color Lock Puzzle
Use the poem and infographic below to solve the color lock puzzle. Pay attention to the words in bold. They'll get you closer to unlocking the color lock.
Prehistoric animals came after dinosaurs
Then came the wooly mammoth who really was a bore.
Primitive, hungry men, used their skills to hunt.
Survival of the fittest, say hello to death the runt.
Technology developed during The Stone Age
and then advancements turned the page.
Weapons, fire, and wheels helped advance these men
to live a better life, and an go from one to ten.
Then came the Iron Age, when things would melt and be hot,
they could trade and advance, and build their lovely pots.
5 Digit Directional Lock Puzzle
This is a map of early human migration. Each region is color coded by early human type and each number represents a distinct population. There are many migration paths! Let's travel the map! I'd like to start in Australia and then move to the islands above. Then, I'd like to go to Madagascar. After Madagascar, Saudi Arabia is next on my travel itinerary. Then, I'd like to visit Clade D with around 70,000 early humans with a final stop at Clade A up north. My lovely migration through early human development should help solve this puzzle! Don't be fooled by all of the arrows!
Date Lock Puzzle
Disregarding the extremely inhospitable spots even the most stubborn of us have enough common sense to avoid, humans have managed to cover an extraordinary amount of territory on this earth. Go back 200,000 years, however, and Homo sapiens was only a newly budding species developing in Africa, while perceived ancestors such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis had already travelled beyond Africa to explore parts of Eurasia, and sister species like the Neanderthal and Denisovan would traipse around there way before we did, too. Meanwhile, the wake-up calls of Homo floresiensis, found in Indonesia, and Homo naledi from South Africa (which do not seem to fit with previous, more linear models) serve as excellent reminders that the story of human migrations across the prehistoric landscape is far from a simple one. Read the article below for more information and the answer to the date lock clue! They key is in the finger bone!