Artifacts
What materials are the earliest tools made from?
stone & bone
What is the official name for the Old Stone Age?
What is the official name for the New Stone Age?
Neolithic Era
What elements led to the discovery of bronze?
copper + tin + heat
What does BCE stand for?
Before Common Era
What evidence shows the meaning of animals to early people?
Cave Art
What word describes the way people lived and moved from place to place?
What two factors led to the Agricultural Revolution?
More People (overpopulation)
Climate Change (end of the last ice age)
What word describes human changes to the landscape?
Cultivation
When did human migration reach all inhabited continents?
15,000 BCE
What were some of the earliest artifacts that showed humans tracking time?
lunar calendars
What time span was the Old Stone Age?
2.5 million BCE - 8000 BCE
What time span was the New Stone Age?
8000 BCE - 3800 BCE
What helped people understand why and how things were the way they were?
Religion
3300 BCE
What artifact shows that early humans cared about beauty and wealth?
Jewelry
What evidence is there that early humans had entertainment?
musical instruments, bone flutes
What type of geographic location did early farming civilizations develop in?
River Valleys
What are two innovations besides bronze that changed life in the Bronze Age?
the Wheel and the Plow
When did the neolithic age begin?
8000 BCE
What was used in burial sites or graves to color bodies red?
Ochre
What professions help us understand more about early humans? (2)
Anthropologists & Archaeologists
What word describes how people lived when they formed permanent settlements?
sedentary
What word describes the organization of people in early civilizations?
Hierarchy
What vocab word describes when things are in order of what they happen?
chronological