Vocabulary
The bones of a human or animal from the past.
What is a fossil?
Paleolithic people made their tools out of this.
What is stone?
The Neolithic Period begins when humans start to do this.
What is farm or domesticate?
This person is an expert in fossils.
Who is a paleontologist?
Name an example of a megafauna.
What is a wooly mammoth, saber tooth cat, giant sloth, etc.?
A tool or weapon used by people from the past.
What is an artifact?
The Paleolithic people moved out of East Africa beginning around 100,000 years ago because of this.
What is a drought or unstable climate?
This was the first animal humans domesticated.
What is the dog?
This person searches for and studies artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
The megafauna became extinct around this time.
What is the end of the Ice Age (around 11,000 years ago)?
This is a source that was created by a person who lived during the period described.
What is a primary source?
This is how Paleolithic people got food.
What is by hunting animals and gathering fruits and nuts?
Neolithic people first settled near what landform?
What is a river or river valley?
This person studies the culture of people.
What is an anthropologist?
Humans last migrated to this continent.
What is South America?
This is a source created after the time period, usually by a person studying that period.
What is a secondary source?
This is the most important piece of technology Paleolithic people developed.
What is fire?
These tools helped Neolithic people farm.
What are the hoe, sickle, and plow? (Any of these answers are acceptable.)
This person tells us about the composition of the earth.
What is a geologist?
We know early humans were developing culture because they did this to their dead.
What is bury them?
The music, language, clothing, and practices of human life.
What is culture?
The cave art done by Australia's Aboriginal people is unique because it shows this.
What is a link to nature and spirituality?
Neolithic people made this discovery when they heated rock.
What is metal, or how to mold metal?
This person is the most likely to be the author of a book on a period in history.
The Beringia land bridge connected these two continents.
What are Asia and North America?