Hunter-Gatherers
A person who hunts animals and gathers wild plants for food is called this.
Who is a hunter-gatherer?
Early humans used this discovery for warmth, light, cooking, and protection from predators.
What is fire?
This revolution occurred when humans shifted from hunting and gathering to producing food through farming.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This is the time period before people developed written records.
What is Prehistory?
This is the study of the physical remains of the human past.
What is archaeology?
When people became especially skilled at one particular job, this developed.
What is specialization?
Hunter-gatherers were these because they regularly moved from place to place.
What are nomads?
Early tools were commonly made from these three materials.
What are stone, bone, and wood?
This means taming plants or animals for human use.
What is domestication?
This is the time period after written records were developed.
What is history?
An object made or used by people in the past is called this.
What is an artifact?
Potters, weavers, metalworkers, and toolmakers are examples of these specialized workers.
What are artisans?
Hunter-gatherers often moved in order to follow these two food sources as the seasons changed.
What are animal herds and seasonal plants?
These prehistoric weapons allowed hunters to attack animals from a distance.
What are spears?
This animal was the first animal domesticated by humans according to our notes.
What is the dog?
A diary, photograph, tool, or personal letter created during the time being studied is this type of source.
What is a primary source?
Unlike an artifact, this was once a living thing.
What is a fossil?
Food surpluses allowed fewer people to farm, which meant other people could do this.
What is specialize in other jobs?
Early humans generally lived together in small groups known by this term.
What are bands?
The four major elements of prehistoric culture studied in class were tools, art, religion, and this.
What is language?
Agriculture gave humans this for the first time, making it less necessary to move constantly.
What is a stable/steady food supply?
A textbook, biography, documentary, or historical movie is usually this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
Archaeologists use this scientific process involving Carbon-14 to determine the age of some artifacts.
What is radiocarbon dating?
Specialization eventually contributed to trade and the development of these divisions between groups of people.
What are social classes?
Give two ways hunter-gatherers adapted to different environments or climates.
What are making clothing, using fire, creating shelter, making tools/weapons, hunting different animals, fishing, or gathering different plants?
Archaeologists believe prehistoric graves provide evidence that early humans may have believed in this.
What is religion?
A supply of food beyond what a community immediately needs is called this.
What is a surplus?
Archaeology is especially important for studying prehistory for this reason.
What is because there are no written records from prehistory?
Name two things archaeologists may learn about ancient people by studying artifacts.
What are how people lived, their technology, jobs, culture, beliefs, clothing, or tools?
As villages became larger and more complicated, this institution developed to create rules and keep order.
What is government?