Paleolithic
This era is also known by this name because humans made simple weapons and tools out of stone.
What is the Stone Age
This "Revolution" marked the massive shift from hunting and gathering to settled farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution or Agricultural Revolution
These are objects made by humans, such as tools, weapons, or pottery, that help us understand how they lived.
What are artifacts
This term describes a species that has completely died out, such as the woolly mammoth.
What is extinct
This Paleolithic technology brought warmth, cooked food, and protection from predators.
What is controlled fire
These early humans had no permanent home and moved from place to place in search of food.
Who are nomads
Many of the first farming villages emerged in this fertile area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent
These are the remains of living things (plants, animals, or people) that have been preserved in rock.
What are fossils
Meaning "large animals," this term includes the saber-toothed tiger and giant ground sloth.
What is Megafauna
This hard stone could be split into razor-sharp flakes to create cutting tools and weapons.
What is flint
This Paleolithic survival strategy involved men tracking large animals while women and children gathered nuts and berries.
What is hunting and gathering
This practice involved taming animals and raising plants for human use and sustenance.
What is domestication
This specific geographic feature in East Africa is where the earliest modern human skulls were found.
Great Rift Valley
This is the fine, fertile soil deposited by rivers that made land prime for Neolithic farming.
What is Silt
(DAILY DOUBLE) These two specific tools were made from bone to assist with fishing and making clothes.
What are fish hooks and sewing needles
Located in France, this famous site contains around 600 detailed paintings of animals created 17,000 years ago.
What is the Lascaux Cave
The end of this major climatic period around 14,000 B.C. caused ice sheets to melt and lengthened the growing season.
What is the Ice Age
This term refers to "human-like" species that lived in Africa for millions of years before modern humans.
What are Hominins
This land bridge connected Siberia to North America, allowing hunters to walk between continents.
What is Beringia
This Neolithic tool was hooked onto cattle to turn over soil, often using manure to fertilize the fields.
What is the plow
In 1967, an archaeological team led by this man discovered 195,000-year-old Homo sapiens skulls in East Africa.
Who is Richard Leakey
Unlike Paleolithic groups, Neolithic people lived in these, which led to the development of specialized tools and pottery.
What are permanent villages
Historians categorize evidence into three levels: Primary (direct evidence from the time), Secondary (interpretations by people who weren't there), and Tertiary (summaries of information). Using this system, a cave painting and a modern history textbook belong to these two different categories.
What are primary and secondary sources
During a period of climate change, this famous desert briefly became a "green oasis" with water and plants.
What is the Sahara
These two Neolithic tools were used for harvesting crops and digging through the soil.
What are sickles and hoes