Vocabulary
period of human past before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
means before the birth of Christ
What is B.C.?
the remains of once living things
What are fossils?
the earliest ways of getting food
What is hunting and gathering?
early biological relatives to modern day humans.
What is a hominid?
another name for the New Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Age? (or Revolution)
to tame animals for human use
What is domesticate?
What is Jericho?
Another name for the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age? (Era)
the type of specialist who studies the past based on what early people left behind
What is an archaeologist?
a period with cooler global temperatures and the expansion of ice sheets across large areas
What is an Ice Age?
the time in which early hominids began to control fire.
What is 800,000 years ago?
What is maize and squash?
climate or environmental factors that forced early humans to migrate
What are floods and ice ages?
The harvesting of plants and the raising of domesticated animals.
What is agriculture?
the study of objects to learn about past human life
What is archaeology?
having more than is needed at one time
What is a surplus?
What is modern-day France?
the act of moving from one location to another to establish a permanent settlement
What is migration?
calculates the age of an object by comparing it to other objects found at the same site
What is relative dating?
What is the agricultural revolution?
a landmass exposed by lower sea levels that served as a land bridge between Asia and North America
What is Beringia?