Prehistory
An object made by people in the past.
What is an artifact?
The oldest period of the Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Long periods of extreme cold that affected all of the earth.
What is an Ice Age?
The most recent period of the Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Age?
The number of people who live in a place.
What is population?
The study of objects to learn about past human life.
What is archaeology?
Nomadic people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants to survive.
What are hunter-gatherers?
Remains of plant and animal life that have been preserved from an earlier time.
What is a fossil?
Taming or controlling animals.
What is domestication?
Paleolithic people crushed rocks to make paints for these artworks.
What are cave paintings?
This time period ended when people began writing and recording.
What is prehistory?
This discovery helped early humans cook food for more nutrition, keep warm and scare off predators.
What is fire?
The movement of people from one place to settle in another.
What is migration?
Holy places decorated with images of gods or goddesses.
What is a shrine?
A common dish from this time period could be rat stew with delicious mini tomatoes.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Scientists who support the theory of natural selection generally believe human life began here.
What is Africa?
People who regularly moved from place to place to survive.
What are nomads?
This "natural highway" was exposed by lowering sea levels and allowed humans to populate North America.
What is a land bridge?
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What is the Bering Strait?
The organized growing of food on a regular schedule.
Early humans most likely followed this animal across the Bering Strait land bridge into the Americas.
What is the Mammoth?
The unusually fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates river is sometimes called this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Tools and methods that are used to perform a task.
What is technology?
These large sheets of ice moved across the world during the Ice Age.
What is a glacier?
The switch from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to settled farming.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This author would agree that Hunter-Gatherers had less risk of disease and starvation than farmers.
Who is Jared Diamond?