VOCABULARY
The time period before written history when humans did not record events in writing.
What is PREHISTORIC?
The name of the land bridge used during prehistoric migration.
What is BERINGIA?
The type of structure STONEHENGE is.
What are MEGALITHIC STRUCTURES?
Is interchangeable with BC.
What is BCE?
A possible explanation for why an event happened that needs to be tested or researched.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
The movement of people or animals from one area to another.
What is MIGRATION?
The theory that suggests that some of the first people to reach North America might have traveled by boat across the Pacific Ocean.
What is the TRANS-PACIFIC MIGRATION THEORY?
Common depictions in cave paintings.
What are ANIMALS, HUMAN FIGURES, and ABSTRACT SYMBOLS?
What CE stands for.
What is COMMON ERA?
Causing a lot of disagreement or argument.
What is CONTROVERSIAL?
Someone who studies artifacts from the past to learn what people of the past were like and how they lived.
Who is an ARCHAEOLOGIST?
A controversial migration hypothesis we discussed in class.
What is the SOLUTREAN HYPOTHESIS?
A method used in cave art similar to airbrushing.
What is BLOWING and SPRAYING?
A period when the northern continents were buried under snow and ice.
What is the ICE AGE?
An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical significance.
What is an ARTIFACT?
A person who travels by water and has the capabilities to navigate open water.
Who is a SEAFARER?
The main reason humans migrated.
What is SURVIVAL?
A common material used in cave paintings derived from minerals, plants, and animal fat.
What are PIGMENTS?
Early humans made these out of stone.
What are TOOLS?
A person without a permanent home who travels from place to place to find resources for survival.
What is a NOMAD?
An explanation for how things happen.
What is a THEORY?
The type of skills an early human needed to support the TPMT?
What are SEAFARING SKILLS?
Another word for ROCK CARVINGS.
What are PETROGLYPHS?
Arguably the most important advancement of the Paleolithic Era.
What are STONE TOOLS?
An established community of people with an intent to organize and grow in a particular place.
What is a SETTLEMENT?