| A | B |
|---|
| agriculture | farming |
| archaeologist | scientist who studies remains of humans |
| artifact | object made by humans |
| domesticate | to tame something wild |
| history | study of the past based on the written word |
| hominid | early human |
| Neolithic period | New Stone Age |
| Neolithic Revolution | invention of agriculture |
| nomad | person who moves in search of food |
| Paleolithic period | Old Stone Age |
| prehistory | all events that took place before the invention of the written word |
| pastoral nomad | sheep, goat or cattle herder |
| pasture | field with grass for grazing animals |
| irrigation | system of canals supplying water to fields |
| surplus | more than is needed; extra, leftovers |
| artisan | person skilled in a craft |
| civilization | Has cities,architiecture, gov., art, writing, various jobs |
| Bronze | mixture of copper and tin |
| social class | group of people with similar background and lifestyle |
| A.D. | anno domini |
| B.C. | Before Christ's birth |
| C.E. | Current Era (now) |
| B.C.E. | Before Current Era |
| dolmen | burial rock structure |
| animism | belief in magic power in animals, rocks, dreams |
| totem | animal symbol with magic powers |
| totemism | believing in power of totems |
| polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| radio carbon dating | scientific method of dating biological material by amount of radio carbon |
| stratigraphy | dating artifacts by age of soil or rock layer found in |
