Vocabulary
period of human past before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
Before Common Era, also before the year 0
What is B.C.?
the earliest ways of getting food
What is hunting and gathering?
This was the earliest clothing material.
What is animal skins/fur?
another name for the New Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Age? (or Revolution)
Common Era, or CE, is after which year?
What is 0?
to tame something for human use
What is domesticate?
Another name for the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age? (Era)
a person who has no single settled home and moves from place to place to find food
What is a nomad?
Historians learned about prehistory through artifacts and from these, stories passed down by word of mouth.
What are oral traditions?
In the word prehistory, the prefix "pre" means this.
What is before?
a group of 100 years
What is a century?
the study of objects to learn about past human life
What is archaeology?
During this time, years go down in number until they reach the year 0
What is BCE?
Prehistoric wall art (cave paintings) would be considered:
historical data
primary sources
secondary sources
fossilized remains
What are primary sources?
why cave paintings didn't include a written description of what was happening
What is they were drawn before people learned to use written language?