Vocabulary
Paleolithic Time Period
Neolithic Time Period
Advancements
Vocabulary
100
People who travel from place to place.
What are nomads?
100

Paleolithic people spent most of their time getting food by doing this.

What is hunting and gathering?

100

This advancement led to humans no longer wearing animal skins.

What is weaving?

100

Paleolithic people used these for hunting.

What are stone weapons (spears, arrows, etc.)?

100
Weapons, tools and other things made by man.
What are artifacts?
200
Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
200
A very important discovery by these hunters and gatherers.
What is fire?
200

The keeping of animals for food and to assist with jobs.

What are domesticated animals?

200
This advancement made peoples' food taste better.
What is fire?
200
What historians called the early period of human history.
What is the Stone Age?
300

People who dig up items to learn about people in the past.

Who are archaeologists?

300

The primary goal of humans in the Paleolithic era.

What is survival?

300

The major way the Neolithic people got their food.

What is agriculture.

300
This advancement made working together easier.
What is language?
300
Tame animals and plants for human use.
What is domesticated?
400

The region of land where the first civilizations developed due to the ability to do agriculture there.

Who is the Fertile Crescent?

400

Paleolithic men made tools and weapons out of this material.

What are stones?

400

The reason Neolithic people were able to stay in one place and build permanent homes.

What is agriculture?

400

This advancement allowed humans to begin storing food and liquids.

What is pottery?

400
A scientist who works to uncover clues about early human life by hunting for evidence in the ground.
Who are archaeologists?
500

The belief in many gods.

What is polytheism?

500

When the earliest humans first began migrating.

What is 100,000 years ago?

500

The advancement in language created in the Neolithic era.

What is written language?

500

This advancement that allowed humans to move into the Neolithic era.

What is the agricultural (neolithic) revolution?

500
Tools and methods that help humans perform tasks.
What is technology?
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