Hunter-Gatherers
Neolithic
Ice Age
Vocabulary
Misc
100
What was the womens role for hunter-gatherers
Gather fruits, nuts and more. Stay and take care of the children
100
What role did women have in the Neolithic Period
Women would farm
100
What is an ice age
a long period in which earth's temperatures drop below normal
100
Sedentary
to stay in one place
100
what does it mean to domesticate?
to tame animals and plants for human use.
200
What were men's roles as hunter gatherers
Hunt for the food
200
What role did men have in the neolithic period
Men would sheppard and hunt
200
How many major ice ages do scientist believe that there were?
4
200
Nomadic
move from place to place in search of food
200
Historians believe this could have been used for good luck or religion in the paleolithic period
Cave paintings
300
Name at least two advancements that early humans made
Learning to Control Fire, Development of Cave art, Spoken language
300
Where landform did neolithic people began building their villages
rivers
300
when did the last ice-age end?
10,000 years ago
300
homonid
Humans early ancestors
300
What farming tool was invented during the Neolithic period
plow
400
What were reasons why cave paintings could have been created?
Religion or good luck
400
Where is the entrance to neolithic homes at
top of the houses
400
During the most severe ice age, ice almost reached what point on the earth
the equator
400
Artifact
weapons, tools, and other objects that were made and left by humans
400
What does it mean to use a barter system
To trade with one another based on need (example: trade 10 pots for 1 sheep)
500
What are ways that hunter gatheres would hunt?
use spears or weapons, drive animals off of cliffs, use a club and teamwork to kill animal
500
How were neolithic houses built
They were built with adjoing walls. one was built by the next then someone would build next to that and so on
500
Because of the last ice-age homonids where able to cross over to North America using what?
Bering land bridge
500
Fossils
traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock
500
What are at least three uses of Rivers
Transportation, bathing, water for humans, water for herds, water for crops
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