Vocab!
A term for 10 years
Decade
A period of time when tools were made of stone or natural materials like bone, wood, or horns.
Stone Age
What period in the Stone Age did people start to make cave paintings?
Paleolithic Period
What material was the most popular for early humans to use for creating tools?
Stone
What is an artifact?
An object made by humans from a past society and culture.
An acronym, that when added onto a number means the years "Before Christ."
BC
A human, living in a society where food is either hunted for or foraged by collecting wild plants.
Hunter-Gatherer
What period in the Stone Age did humans start developing a spoken language to communicate?
Mesolithic Period
Hunter-gatherers were a nomadic type of people, what does Nomad mean?
A person who has no permanent home and moves from place to place.
What is fire used for?
Keeping warm, cooking food, light, scaring predators
A term for 100 years
Century
A change in global weather patterns.
Climate Change
What period of the Stone Age was farming more popular than being a hunter-gatherer?
Neolithic Period
How big where the groups that Hunter-Gatherers traveled in?
20-50 people
What is a wooden spear used for?
Fishing, hunting, self-defense
A long period of time that marks a special feature or a big event that makes it different from other times.
Era
The way to tame an animal or growing plants for food.
Domestication
What period in the Stone Age did some humans begin to farm and settle down instead of being hunter-gatherers?
Mesolithic Period
Which continent did hunter-gatherers first start in before moving to the other continents?
Africa
What is an archaeologists job?
A historian who studies archaeology, discovers objects that were left behind by the people of the past.
An acronym, that when added onto a number means "In the year of our Lord" in Latin.
AD - Anno Domini
The species of humans, from 4000 BC to the present.
Homosapien
What is the order of the periods in the Stone Age?
Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
Why did hunter-gatherers frequently migrate and move around the land?
Following animals and plants
What is the name of the ancient skeleton even older than humans that was discovered by a Donald Johanson?
Lucy