Looking Sharp!
An ax-like tool used for smoothing and shaping wood
What is an adze?
A lifestyle that means to stay or live in one place
What is sedentary?
This word means old
What is paleo?
Mostly lived a nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering food
What is paleolithic?
What is the name of the park we went to on our field trip?
What is Bowdoin Park?
It means to grow and take care of plants or crops
What is cultivate?
To tame or breed a wild animal to live with and/or be useful to people
What is domesticate?
This word means new
What is neo
What is both?
How many activities did we do on our field trips?
A type of igneous rock formed when lava from a volcano cools quickly
What is obsidian?
The upper layer of soil bound by grass and other plant roots
What is turf?
This word means stone
What is lithic?
People cultivated the land to grow food
What is neolithic?
What was the goal of the first team building activity you played on the field trip
What is get your whole team to the other side of the river?
A saw-like edge with small teeth rather than a smooth edge
What is a serrated edge?
A variety of plants from the grass family such as wheat, barley and rice
What are cereal crops?
The age took place from around 2.5 million BCE to 8000 BCE
What is the paleolithic age?
The women had more children
What is neolithic?
This tool was used on our field trip to create sparks to make a fire
What is flint?
It means to mark an object or a surface with a cut or a series of cutes to decorate it
What is incise?
A place to live such as a house
What is a dwelling?
This age took place from about 8000BCE to 3000BCE
What is the neolithic age?
Used axes, knives, and spears to hunt
What is both?
This river could be seen from our lunch area at Bowdoin Park