Food
What animals did people in neolithic times raise?
Goats, Sheep and cows.
What did they use to dress themselves?
Animal skins
What is the difference between a village and settlement?
Villages are much bigger than settlements.
What is the meaning of the word surplus?
To have more than needed of something
What material did they use for knives?
Flint.
What were the animals they kept used for?
Meat, Milk, and skin.
How did women style their hair to keep it out if their eyes?
They styled it into a braid.
What does it mean to divide labor?
It means to give everyone a different job.
What is a drought
A long period of time without rain
Where were the earliest settlements found?
Seria(Southwestern Asia, Northeastern Africa)
What did people in neolithic times do when they had too much food.
They dried it so it would last longer.
What did they use to decorate themselves?
Jewelry and facepaint
Where were the first settlements found near?
Near fertile soil and lots of water
What does it mean to domesticate?
To tame animals for human use
Why did neolithic humans dry food?
To preserve it for later consumption.
What were the earliest cultivated crops?
Wheat and barley
What was the hairstyle many women had cut their hair to?
Medium length with bangs.
Why did settlements grow into villages?
They grew bigger because of population increase. (Population increased because food and diet improved)
What is the meaning of agriculture?
The knowledge of growing crops and raising livestock
How did farming change the lives of neolithic people?
They were able to settle and didn't have to hunt and gather anymore.
Over a fire and in the sun
What did they put on necklaces?
Plant seeds, animal teeth, seashells, and fish scales.
Name one early village?
Abu Hureya, Jericho , Jarmo.
What does it mean to subsist?
To barely survive
What was jericho named after?
A biblical village.