This is the earliest period of time-all the years before the develpment of writing.
What is pre-history
100
They go form higher ground to lower ground. They change the land beneath them when they do this.
What is glaciers moving?
100
They are thumbs, walk upright, our eyes, and complex brain.
What are the four special characteristics of people?
100
These are things you will find deep inside of a cave made by the people of the past.
What is a cave painting?
100
Scientists believe that this period of time lasted until about 11,000 years ago.
What is the Ice Age?
200
Amelting glaciers leaves a ridge of rocks and soil behind is called this.
What is a moraine?
200
They study people today that live like the people of the part. They also look at the size of bones to tell us the size of the people in the past.
What is two ways anthropologist study the past?
200
They are pebble tools, hand ax, flakes, and spears.
What are stone tools that people used long ago?
200
This is the person who was belived to be able to talk to spirits.
What is a shaman?
200
Before the glaciers melted people used these pieces of land to travel. After the glaciers melted these were no longer around becasue they were covered by water.
What is a londbridge?
300
The assigning of certain jobs to certain people.
What is division of labor?
300
These ages have been seperated by the kinds of tools people used like, the Stone Age, the Copper Age, Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.
What is the ages of prehistory?
300
These people only ate food they collected, they moved from place to place more often, lived amongst small groups because they didn't have a large food supply.
What is a gatherer?
300
The tools of people in the Old Stone Age were more this than the tools of the people of earlier times.
What is specialized tools?
300
This is when fine soil is left behind behind by melting glaciers
What is a loess?
400
all the time after the development of wiritng
What is history?
400
These are the people who study very old remains like, clothing, wooden objects, and houses. They usually dig these remains up from the earth.
What is an archeologist?
400
This group collected animal meat and also gathered food, and they lived in large groups becuase they had a bigger food supply.
What is a hunter?
400
The Ice Age animals are no longer with us they have become this.
What is extinct?
400
This is an island that was made by melting glaciers.
What is Long Island?
500
This person was usually the cave painter.
What is a shaman?
500
These are the scientists who study the rocks and rock formations to learn how the Earth changed over time.
What is a geologist?
500
The men have the job of hunting, the women are the gatheres, and the children are the learners and helpers.
What is the division of labor?
500
These things were believed to give the hunters magical powers when they were hunting.
What are cave paintings?
500
Great gorges that were left by glaciers and filled in by the melting glaciers were known as this.