Prehistory
What does B.C mean?
The study of human societies and cultures and how they develop.
Anthropology
An idea used to explain facts we discover or experience we have had. Theories are not neccessarily true.
Theory
ongest period of the Stone Age
•Began when stone artifacts were first used and lasted until the end of the final Ice Age at around 9600 BCE
•Time of nomadic, or constantly moving, hunter-gatherers
•Humans began to make stone tools that gradually increased in their specialization
A. Mesolithic
B. Paleolithic
C. Neolithic
Paleolithic Period
Mankind's first civilization
Sumer
What does A.D mean?
Anno Domini ("In the year of the Lord.")
They find and dig up the lost cities and campsites of mankind. They study the bones and buildings left for signs of man’s life.
Archaeologists
_____________ is a very small, sharp and chipped stones that were used as spear points and arrowheads.
Microlith
Begins after the 1ast Ice Age and ends with the introduction of agriculture.
Some Hunters went north following cold weather animals, others remained in warming climates.
A new stone tool
Microlith
A. Mesolithic
B. Paleolithic
C. Neolithic
Mesolithic Period
What gods did Sumerians worship?
What does Arche mean in Archaeologists?
Mankind
They study the traces left by mankind during those long years before waiting.
Paleontologist
Remains or imprints of things that were once alive.
Fossils
This period was specialized tools for farming.
Plows, and stone tools.
Humans began to make long term settlements in one place.
Increased population and development of cities.
Domesticate - convert (plants, animals, and etc) to domestic use.
8 Crops - Emmer Wheat, Einkorn Wheat, Barley, lentil, Pea, Chickpea, Bitter Vetch, Flax
A. Mesolithic
B. Paleolithic
C. Neolithic
Neolithic Period
The Sumerians invented the ________ to help with farming and their way of life.
Wheel
What does Logia mean in Archaeologists?
Study
An item worked on or made by man.
Artifact
A solid, layered stone pyramid structure.
Ziggurat
What ways did Sumerians use writing?
Used of writing
What was the name of the writing with wedge shaped letters Sumerians used?
Cuneiform
A long poem that tells of heroes and their deeds.
Epic
A substance from which coal, charcoal, and graphite ate made.
Carbon
To make someone calm and quiet so that he/she will not grow angry.
Appease
We thank Sumerians for dividing a circle into 360 degrees and what else?
60 seconds to 1 minute
60 minutes to 1 hour
A pointed stick used for writing on wax or clay tablets.
Stylus