Vocabulary
Early Gathers & Hunters
Early Farmers
Developing Cultures
Miscellaneous
100
to tame
What is Domesticate
100
The study of past cultures through the things that remain, such as buildings, tools or pottery
What is Archeology
100
What two periods are the stone age divided into?
What is the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age
100
What does prehistoric art provide to people today?
What is a valuable view of the prehistoric world
100
The discovery of metals and the development of metalworking marked the beginning or end of the New Stone age?
What is End
200
to move from one place to another
What is migrate
200
objects made by people long ago
What is Artifacts
200
True/False a great deal of progress was made during the Old Stone Age
What is False
200
the study of the relationship between physical features, climate, and people
What is Geography
200
What is one item humans made/developed during the Stone Age?
What is 1. made tools and weapons out of bones and wood 2. developed new techniques in stone working and used polished rocks
300
the long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language
What is prehistory
300
During parts of the most recent Ice Age, a “land bridge” called _______ connect Asia and North America
What is Beringia
300
What was the first plant domesticated?
What is grains
300
The way in which individuals and groups interact with their environment
What is Culture
300
Where was the Iceman found
What is Tyrolean Alps In Italy & Austria
400
a scientific method of estimating the age of something after it has died
What is Carbon Dating
400
Where in the world do scientists believe that early peoples first live about 3.5 million years ago before migrating to other areas?
What is East Africa
400
What did surplus food lead to during the Stone Age
What is social divisions within a community
400
Where are the Lascaux Caves located?
What is Southern France
400
Sequence the events that archaeologists follow to learn about an ancient civilization ___ archaeologists analyze their discoveries ___ archaeologists select an excavation site ___ archaeologists find artifacts ___ archaeologists draw conclusions about the culture
What is __3_ archaeologists analyze their discoveries _1__ archaeologists select an excavation site _2__ archaeologists find artifacts _4__ archaeologists draw conclusions about the culture
500
As cultures progressed, established farming led to...
What is Settlements
500
Some Ancient artifacts in the _______ have been dated to 12,000-18,000 years old
What is Americas
500
The ability to grow more crops than needed meant what?
What is not everyone in a village needed to farm
500
Why are some examples of prehistoric art in France and Spain so well preserved?
What is they are in caves, protected from sunlight and weather
500
What could cause groups living in different regions to develop different cultures?
What is people rely on resources available to them. Different resources, such as landforms, plants and animals and climate might cause group to develop differently
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