Getting oriented
The beginning of Prehistory wherein Hominids used stone tools.
What is the Stone Age?
Shared beliefs and customs
What is culture?
Natural periodic times of cooling leading to freezing conditions on earth.
What is an Ice Age?
Revolutionary development that made efficient communication possible
What is language?
Kept women from big game hunting?
What was Caring for Children?
The first part of the Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic?
Tools and methods used to perform tasks
What is technology?
Name three things hominids developed in order to adapt to the ice age
What are they changed their diet, made warmer clothes, and built sturdier shelter
A form of expression that can communicate information about the past to historians and archaeologists.
What is art?
The first families
What was a man and a women trying to find food for their children?
Groups of 20 to 30 hominids wandering from place to place in search of food.
What are nomads?
Simultaneous worldwide Paleolithic development
What is Flint Technology?
Mastodon bones
What is a material used to make ice age shelters?
Animals, less so humans
What are the primary subjects of Paleolithic cave art?
A large piece of sharp flint tied to a wooden handle
What is a hand axe?
Nomads that hunt animals and gatherer plant food
What are hunter-gatherers?
Provided illumination, protection, warmth, cooking, and better hunting
What is fire?
Pit house
What was the first shelter created by hominids?
Maria de Sautuoia
Who discovered cave art in Altamira, Spain?
The process of changing in order to survive in a changing or new environment
What is adaptation?
They were particularly good at trapping small animals
Who were women?
Two ways hominids could create fire
What are Drill friction and pyrite sparks?
Exposed by the ice age and made migration possible in new places
What were land bridges?
The two most famous Paleolithic cave art sites
What are Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain?
The concept that the earth and life on earth is always changing.
What is evolution?