| A | B |
| hunter-gatherer | People who migrated in search of food |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age - people gathered food |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age - people grew food |
| domestication | act of taming |
| archeology | people who study past cultures by analyzing human remains, fossils, and artifacts |
| carbon 14 | modern method used to analyze fossils and artifacts |
| Homo sapiens | means "man who thinks" emerged between 100,000 to 400,000 years ago |
| nomads | people who migrate |
| fire | used for cooking, defense, and to inhabit cooler regions |
| Africa | the location where homo sapiens emerged |
| natural resources | all materials found in nature |
| Rosetta Stone | a discovery that allowed scientists to decipher the Ancient Egyptian heiroglyphics |
| The Leakey family | the archeologists who discovered the earliest known humans |