Vocabulary
period of human past before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
means before the birth of Christ
What is B.C.?
the earliest ways of getting food
What is hunting and gathering?
This was the earliest clothing material.
What is animal skins/fur?
another name for the New Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Age? (or Revolution)
to tame animals for human use
What is domesticate?
Another name for the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age? (Era)
a person who has no single settled home and moves from place to place to find food
What is a nomad?
Historians learned about prehistory through artifacts and from these, stories passed down by word of mouth.
What are oral traditions?
In the word prehistory, the prefix "pre" means this.
What is before?
a group of 100 years
What is a century?
The harvesting of plants and the raising of domesticated animals.
What is systematic agriculture?
the study of objects to learn about past human life
What is archaeology?
having more than is needed at one time
What is a surplus?
Prehistoric wall art (cave paintings) would be considered:
historical data
primary sources
secondary sources
fossilized remains
What are primary sources?
why cave paintings didn't include a written description of what was happening
What is they were drawn before people learned to use written language?
Name 3 or more of the 5 reasons why fire was important to the Paleolithic people.
What is warmth, hunting, cooking food, scaring away animals, and light?