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Paleo-Neo
Hunt and Gather
Let's Farm
Can You Dig It?
Civilized?
100

I study the origins and development of people and societies

What is an anthropologist?

100
2 million to about 10,000 B.C.
What is the Paleolithic Period?
100
began around 10,000 B.C.
What is the Neolithic Era?
100
study of past people and cultures through their material remains
What is an archaeologist?
100
groups of people who have a complex and organized society
What is a civilization?
200
object made by humans
What is an artifact?
200
Old Stone Age
What is another name for the Paleolithic Period?
200
New Stone Age
What is another name for the Neolithic Era?
200
I am used to tell how old an object is
What is carbon dating?
200
where early civilizations developed
What is a river valley?
300
100,000 to 400,000 years ago
What is the time when the earliest humans lived in east Africa?
300
stone, bone and wood
What were early tools and weapons made of?
300
raise plants and animals for human use
What is domestication?
300

Why is prehistory difficult to study?

What is no written record?

300
I am between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
400
how early man got his food
What is hunted and gathered?
400
used for cooking, warmth, warfare, and to clear brush to see game better
What is fire?
400
development of agriculture
What enabled man to stay in one place?
400
located in Israel, the oldest known settlement in the world
What is Jericho?
400
located in the Niler River Valley and Delta
What is Egypt?
500
land bridge
What connected Asia and North America?
500

Small group of paleolithic people who travel together

What is a clan or family?

500

Do we often have to guess about symbols on artwork or other artifacts left behind? 

What is yes?

500
site in present day Turkey, may be the largest known Neolithic settlement
What is Catalhoyuk?
500
earliest civilization around the Huang He Valley
What is Shang China?