| A | B |
| Excavation | in archaeology, the systematic digging of an area of ground to recover the archaeological record |
| Fossil | the remains or imprint of a plant or animal from a past geological age |
| Geologists | Scientists who study the Earth |
| Glacier | a huge, slow-moving mass of ice |
| Homo erectus | Upright human |
| Homo habilis | Handy human |
| Homo sapiens | Wise human |
| hunter-gatherer | a person who gets food by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants, roots, nuts and berries |
| Ice Age | A period when glaciers covered much of the Earth. |
| Lascaux Caves | Location in France of many significant cave paintings. |