Vocabulary
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, and nuts to survive
What is hunter-gatherers?
An early ancestor of humans...
What is hominid?
This continent seems to be the last continent settled in early migration.
What is South America?
Before the New Stone Age early people only got fire from ...
What is natural causes such as lightening?
A large hairy animal with tusks used to make shelter in the Middle Stone Age.
What is a wooly mammoth?
During the Old Stone Age, climate patterns around the world changed, transforming the earth's geography. Because of this change, people began to _______________, or move, to new places.
What is migrate?
The Stone Age is divided into _______ number of periods based on the kinds of tools used at the time.
What is 3?
Early people began their migration from this continent.
What is Africa?
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans...
What is domestication?
Longe period of freezing times.
What is ice ages?
Agriculture is the same as...
What is farming?
The most important development of early Stone Age culture was ________.
What is language?
The Middle Stone Ages, the time when early people were migrating, is called the _____________ Era.
What is mesolithic?
Tools developed during the New Stone Age.
What are saws, drills, metal tools?
This character from the chapter wore leather shoes padded with grass, a grass cape, a fur hat, and a backpack.
Who is the iceman?
This is a strip of land connecting two continents.
What is a land bridge?
Most gathering was done by ____________ and most hunting was done by _____________.
What is women and men?
The new tools created during the Middle Stone Ages include ... (Name 1)
What are hooks, fishing spears, bow, and arrows?
Early people used domesticated animals for ...
What is milk, food, wool, clothing, shelter, farming, etc?
The time before there was writing.
What is prehistory?
An ________________ is a relative who lived in the past.
What is ancestor?
Obsidian blades that would have been used in the Stone Age were sharper than this modern material.
What is steel?
Houses changed in the Middle Stone Ages from caves to ...
What are pit houses or above ground homes made out of mammoth bones, animal skins, etc?
Gods and goddesses were associated with four elements.
What is air, water, fire, and earth?
During the Old Stone Age people expressed themselves through language and these expressions of art.
What are carved figures and cave paintings?