Vocab
The Old Stone Age, when people mainly used simple stone tools.
What is Paleolithic Era.
Early people used this for cooking, warmth, and light.
What is fire?
Early people used stone tools to hunt, cut materials, and do this most important thing.
What is survive?
Raising crops and animals for human use.
What is agriculture?
During this era, people began farming and living in permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic Era?
People who survived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
These people study artifacts and other remains to learn about the past.
Who are archaeologists?
Early people could make this sewing tool from animal bone.
What is a needle?
Training plants or animals to be useful to people.
What is domestication?
A person who focuses on one particular kind of work does this.
What is specialize?
The use of tools and skills to meet people’s needs.
What is technology?
The people of Border Cave got food in these two main ways.
What are hunting animals and gathering plants?
Flaking improved a stone tool by giving it this kind of edge.
What is a sharper edge?
Agriculture allowed people to stop moving and begin doing this.
What is settling permanently in one place?
A food surplus allowed people to become potters, weavers, builders, and these kinds of workers.
What are specialized workers?
Chipping pieces from a stone to create a sharper edge.
What is flaking?
These pictures give archaeologists clues about early people and the animals they saw.
What are cave paintings?
Bows and spear-throwers made hunting safer because hunters could do this.
What is hunt from farther away?
An extra supply of food that allowed some people to work at jobs besides farming.
What is a surplus?
Put these developments in order: specialization, hunter-gatherers, surplus, and agriculture.
What is hunter-gatherers, agriculture, surplus, specialization?
A culture with developed government, religion, learning, and specialized jobs.
What is a civilization?
Early people often moved from place to place for this reason.
What is to find food and other resources?
After using stone, wood, and bone, people learned to make stronger tools from this material.
What is metal, such as copper?
This early settlement showed how farming, crafts, and trade could support a large community.
What is Çatal Hüyük?
This major development led to permanent settlements, food surpluses, specialized jobs, trade, and civilizations.
What is agriculture?