The Stone Age
This was the prehistoric time when people made tools and weapons out of stone.
What is the Stone Age?
People who move from place to place in search of food and shelter.
Who are nomads?
Early humans made tools out of these three materials.
What are stone, bone, and wood?
The process of taming animals and growing plants for human use.
What is domestication?
The practice of growing crops or farming.
What is agriculture?
These are the three main periods of the Stone Age.
What are the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods?
People who hunted animals and gathered plants, fruits, and nuts for food.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
Give two examples of tools used during the Stone Age.
What are hand axes, spears, harpoons, or hammerstones?
Name three animal's that early humans domesticated.
What are dogs, goats, sheep, pigs, or cattle?
Having more food or goods than needed.
What is a surplus?
This period is known as the “Old Stone Age.”
What is the Paleolithic period?
Why were hunter-gatherers nomadic?
Because they had to move to find food and water.
Name one way early humans used fire.
What is for warmth, cooking, protection, or light?
The Agricultural Revolution was a major change from hunting and gathering to this.
What is farming and raising animals?
Why was a food surplus important?
It allowed trade and population growth.
This period is known as the “New Stone Age.”
What is the Neolithic period?
About how many people made up a hunter-gatherer band?
What is 20 to 50 people?
Why did early humans work together in bands or groups?
To hunt large animals, share food, and protect each other.
How did farming change the way people lived?
It allowed them to settle, build villages, and form communities.
How did food surpluses lead to population growth?
People had more food, lived longer, and had larger families.
Name one main difference between the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.
What is… Paleolithic = hunting/gathering, Mesolithic = taming animals and better tools, Neolithic = farming and permanent villages?
What were the roles of men, women, and children in hunter-gatherer groups?
Men hunted/fished, women gathered and cared for children, and children helped gather food.
What types of art did people make during the Old Stone Age?
What are cave paintings, carvings, and small statues?
How did farming lead to the creation of permanent settlements?
People no longer had to move to find food and could build permanent homes.
Once farming began, how did people’s jobs change?
(Specialization) Not everyone had to farm—some became toolmakers, traders, or builders.