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What is the other name for the Old Stone Age?
Paleolithic Era
What is the other name for the New Stone Age?
Neolithic Era
What years covered the Paleolithic Era?
70,000 BC - 10,000 BC
What years covered the Neolithic Era
10,000 BC - 4000 BC
People who met their needs by hunting animals and gathering plants are known as what?
Hunter-gatherers
What was the advantage to living in Border Cave?
Being able to watch the animals below
What is...the use of tools and skills to meet practical human needs?
technology
What is the period of time called when people used simple stone tools?
Paleolithic Era
What was made from antlers and used to sew animal skins?
bone needles
What was invented in the Paleolithic Era to make hunting safer?
Long distance spear throwers and bows and arrows
What is... the raising of crops and animals for human use?
Agriculture
How were homes in Catal Huyuk built and why?
Close together so they were easy to defend against attacks
How did people of Catal Huyuk enter their homes?
Through the roof
What is... the process of shaping stone by chipping pieces off the edges?
Flaking
What is... to move from one place to another to live?
Migrate
What makes scientists believe human life began in Africa over 2 million years ago?
human remains found there
What is... to spend most of one's time doing one kind of job?
specialize
What is... the period of the Stone Age when human beings began to develop agriculture and settle permanently in one location?
Neolithic Era
disease and illness
What is... to train something to be useful to people?
domesticate
What is... an extra supply of something that is not immediately needed?
What evidence is there to indicate that people who lived in Border Cave admired beauty?
They traveled 50 miles to the sea to get a seashell to bury with a baby that died
Why did people travel from as far away as Syria to Catal Huyuk?
to trade their goods
What is... a culture that has developed systems of specialization, religion, learning, and government called?
civilization
Name 2 tools people of the Old Stone Age made from their environment and explain how they used them.
Bone needles made from antlers to sew animal skins
Long distance spear throwers made from wood and stone used to make hunting safer