Vocabulary
The period of time before writing was invented.
What is prehistory?
Early people in this age got their food by hunting animals and gathering berries, grasses, seeds, and grains.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
This time period, from 8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C., is when people started to farm and domesticate animals.
What is the Neolithic Age?
The period when people were small groups of nomads.
What is Paleolithic?
The long periods of extreme cold on Earth that exposed the land bridge to the Americas.
What are the Ice Ages?
The study of objects to learn about past human life.
What is archaeology?
This is something early humans made for fun.
What are cave paintings?
Another name for the New Stone Age or Neolithic Age.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
The period when people lived in villages.
What is Neolithic?
This term means about or around, and is used when dating events.
What is circa?
This means an extra supply of something, like food.
What is surplus?
Besides making warmer clothes, this is one major thing earlier people did to adapt to colder climates.
A surplus of food led to this, which is training for a particular job or type of work.
What is specialization?
The period when people created cave paintings.
What is Paleolithic?
Early civilizations developed in these geographical features, and the cities became their center.
What are river valleys?
People who move from place to place in search of food.
What are nomads?
Four ways early people used fire.
What are light, warmth, protection, and to cook?
This was formed to protect people and their food supplies, and to make laws.
What is government?
The period when people had specialization of jobs.
What is Neolithic?
This find caused a controversy between scientists, Native American tribes (who wanted him buried as an ancestor), and the U.S. government.
Who is Kennewick Man?
This is a culture with a system of specialization, religion, cities, and government.
What is a civilization?
The oldest human remains found, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, given this nickname.
Who is Lucy?
An effect of a stable food supply as a result of farming.
What is population growth?
The period when people had religious beliefs.
What is Both?
Scientists do not agree on how the first humans came to America, suggesting they traveled by these two different means.
What is by land bridge and by boat?