Vocabulary
Nomadic groups whose food supply depended on hunting animals and collecting plants for food
What are hunter-gatherers?
The first animals to be domesticated by humans?
What are dogs?
These natural formations are the places that archaeologists have found paintings done by paleolithic humans
What are caves?
This is another name for the neolithic era
What is the "new stone age"?
An object made by human beings
What is an artifact?
A person who moves from place to place in search of food
What is a nomad
This feature was a necessity for early settlements
What is a nearby water source?
This is another name for the paleolithic era
What is "old stone age"?
These people had established permanent homes. Because of this, they are known as ____________.
What is sedentary?
Adapting plants and animals from the wild for such uses as food, clothing and transportation
What is domestication?
A long period of human history before the development of agriculture
What is paleolithic?
The most likely reason hunter-gatherers started farming
What is a scarcity of food?
These people moved from place to place in search of food, so they are referred to as _________.
What is nomadic?
This revolution allowed people to make permanent settlements and specialize their jobs.
What is the agricultural revolution?
One who studies the culture and societies of people who are no longer around
What is an archaeologist?
The transformation of human societies from hunting and gathering to farming
What is the agricultural revolution?
Specialization of jobs and development of permanent housing
What major changes were caused by the agricultural revolution?
Paleolithic people learned to use this as a source of heat.
What is fire?
When neolithic man began making metal tools, it was the beginning of this age.
What is the bronze age?
A preserved remains or impression of an organism that lived in the past
What is a fossil?
A long period of human history after the development of agriculture
What is neolithic?
Early humans first traveled to Europe and Asia from this continent
What is Africa?
Evidence of the first paleolithic religions was this many years B.C.
what is 28,000?
These major changes to the ways people lived happened in the neolithic era because of the agricultural revolution.
What is the specialization of labor and the development of permanent settlements?
One who studies people and the societies they live in
What is an anthropologist?