Stone Age
Ice Age
Early Gatherers and Hunters
Cultures
Vocabulary
100
Marked the beginning of the New Stone Age.
What is the use of polished rock tools?
100
A long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language.
What is prehistory?
100
An object made by people long ago.
What is an artifact?
100
Parts of culture.
What are technology, customs and beliefs?
100
Professional dedicated to the study of ancient people and artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
200
The discover of this caused the end of the stone age.
What is metal (bronze)?
200
Believed to be the first people in the Americas.
What are the Clovis people?
200
A method scientists use to estimate the age of living things that have died.
What is carbon dating?
200
Things that contribute to the development of a culture.
What are Resources, landforms and climate?
200
way in which humans produce th items they use
What is technology?
300
To gather
What is harvest?
300
The place where archeologists discovered that other people may have lived in the Americas before the Clovis people.
What is Monte Verde, Chile?
300
A person who travels from place to place.
What is a nomad?
300
Cultures in the Americas relied on these for development
What are available resources?
300
to move to a different place
What is migrate?
400
This lead to social divisions within a community.
What is a surplus of food?
400
Place where archaeologists dig up artifacts.
What is an excavation site?
400
The way archaeologists draw conclusions about prehistoric people
What is by analyzing artifacts?
400
an example of how landforms and climate affected a culture.
What is -citrus trees grew well in warmer climates. -apples were grown in mild climates -mountain cultures used rocks to make tools -desert cultures used plant stems and fibers to make twine, baskets and sandals.
400
The technology, customs, beliefs and art of some people.
What is culture?
500
People did not need to search for food because of this.
What is plant and animal domestication?
500
Vast area of land that stretched from Asia to North America, that allowed people to migrate.
What is Berigia Strait?
500
1.6 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago.
What is the Ice Age?
500
An area's average weather conditions over a long span of time
What is climate?
500
The study of the relationship between physical features, climate and people.
What is a geography?
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