Facts
What is another name for the Paleolithic Era?
The old stone age.
What is the role of a hunter-gatherer?
Someone who gets their food by killing wild animals and collecting wild fruit, vegetables, and nuts.
What is pre-history?
What is the definition of culture?
The way of life shared by a group of people.
What do BCE and CE stand for?
Before Common Era and Common Era.
What is a nomad?
Someone who frequently moves from place to place.
What is a primary source?
A first hand account or artifact from someone who was present during the event.
What is technology?
The way in which people apply knowledge to meet their needs.
By hunting and gathering food.
Why were the early humans nomads?
Because they followed animals in search of food.
What is a secondary source?
A second hand account of an event from someone who was not present.
What is the meaning of characteristic?
A trait, quality, or property that describes something.
When was the Paleolithic Era?
2,000,000 BCE to 9,000 BCE
What did Paleolithic people use for houses?
It depended on their environment, some used caves and rock shelters. People who lived on plains or in desert areas may have made shelters out of branches, plant fibers, or animal skins.
What are artifacts?
Things that were made or modified by humans
How did early people get to to the American continents from Africa?
They crossed the land bridge between Alaska and Siberia.
What is an effect that hunting and gathering has on the environment and how does this effect the people who are hunting and gathering?
When they eat all the food in an area then there is not more of that food. As a result, they need to move to a different area in search of more food.
What is one type of technology from the reading that was used in the Paleolithic Era?
Mattock, Ax, or Harpoon
Name one primary source that we learned about that helps archeologists learn about life in the Paleolithic Era.
Artifacts (like tools) and cave drawings.
What are the seven aspects of culture?
Social organization, language, customs and traditions, arts and literature, religion, form of government, economic system