Stone Age Facts
Humans who used stone tools and hunting and gathering as a food source.
Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
Archeaology
Use of information to improve the quality of human life; tools, weapons, etc.
Technology
Development of new jobs, because of a surplus of food, people could expand into new jobs
Specialization
People who looked for food and moved often looking for food.
Nomad
About 10,000 years ago; better stone tools; Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture
New Stone Age
Human created objects from the past.
Artifacts
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Society or Culture
A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded
Surplus
The 1st step for Villages to start.
Farming
Moving from one place to another looking for food.
Nomad
Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods
hunter-gatherers
A new technology discovered in the stone age used for protection against cold and predators and was a major develop on the path toward other future technologies such as metallurgy.
FIRE!
Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers
Division of Labor
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
Hunter-Gatherers
Farming on a regular basis - New Stone Age
Agriculture
The name for a Dig Site
excavation
They were the most common technology until about 12,000 years ago.
Stone Tools
Humans depending on each other to survive
Interdependance
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering
Agricultural Revolution
A period of time during which early humans madetools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture
Stone Age
The name for cities being built on trash.
Strata
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans
Domesticate
There was a large division of labor and high level of specialization in the Stone Age.
False
A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
Civilization