Vocabulary
Name given to the early phase of the Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age.
The earliest era of Prehistory was given its name because...
It was a time when people used stone to make tools and weapons.
Definition of culture.
What is: the way of life for a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.
Early people produced fire by______.
What is friction.
Before spoken and written language, early people expressed themselves through the use of _____ and _______ .
sounds and (physical)gestures/ art.
Definition of a nomad.
What is: a person who moves from place to place in order to find food for themselves.
The reason why Paleolithic people moved around a lot...
The moved around in search of food.
Name of the technology that was a major breakthrough-in terms of tool making- for early people.
What is flint technology.
Name THREE uses of fire by early people.
1. warmth
2. light
3. hunting
4. cooking
5. telling stories
Name the discovery made by Maria de Sautuola near Altamira, Spain in 1879.
Cave paintings.
An ability gained by the practical use of knowledge is...
What is technology.
The approximate number of members in a nomadic band...
What is 20-30.
Description of the process used by early people to create the first cutting tools...
Early humans learned that by hitting flint with another hard stone, the flint would flake into pieces, that could be used for cutting.
Name of THREE things that climate determined for Paleolithic people.
1. Clothing
2. Shelter
3. Food
Explain how early people created paints.
Early artists crushed yellow, black, and red rocks and combined them with animal fat to make their paints.
Definition of:
1. Ice Age
2. Hominid
What is:
1. A time when glaciers covered much of the land.
2. mankind's early ancestors.
1. The main activity of Paleolithic people was _________.
2. Two methods used by early men to hunt animals were ______ and ______.
What is:
1. searching for food.
2. tracking animals, trapping animals in ditches, clubbing animals to death, driving animals off cliffs.
The methods and tools used by Paleolithic people to hunt and gather were a part of their ________.
What is culture.
During the Ice Age, as ________ grew larger, the water level of oceans was ________.
glaciers/ice sheets; lowered.
List of THREE types of scenes created by early people on cave walls.
Scenes of: lions, oxen, panthers, and the hunt.
1. Definition of Hunter-Gatherer.
2. List FOUR foods that made up the diet of Paleolithic people.
What is:
1. a member of nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
2. Buffalo, Bison, wild goats, Reindeer, wild nuts, Berries, Fruits, wild grains, and green plants.
1. List of TWO activities performed by early women...
2. Definition of an early monogamous pair...
What is:
1. looking after the children and gathering food.
2. a man and a woman who hunted together to find food for their children.
List of 4 types of tools created by early humans and one use of each.
1. Spears/bows and arrows- made killing large animals easier.
2. Harpoons- increased the number of fish caught.
3. Blades- used to cut up plants and dig roots.
4. Scraping tools- used to clean animal hides.
5. Needles- used for sewing hides together and constructing nets and baskets.
Explanation of the effect of the lowered sea levels during the Ice Age on people and animals.
The lowered sea levels exposed a strip of dry land connecting the continents of Asia and North America, over which early humans and animals traveled/migrated.
Early people used language to communicate _______ and ______.
information and emotions.