| A | B |
| hominid | prehistoric human |
| capabilities | skills |
| anthropologist | scientist who studies human development and culture |
| biped | an animal that walks on two feet |
| migrate | to move from one geographic region to another |
| land bridge | a piece of land connecting two continents |
| ice age | a long period of time when climate was very cold and large areas of earth were covered by ice |
| stone age | the first peroid of prehistoric culture, from about 2 mya to around 3000 BCE |
| paleolithic age | the first period of the stone age, called the old stone age, from about 2 mya to around 8000BCE |
| neolithic age | the later part of the stone age, called the new stone age, from 8000 to 3000 BCE |
| domesticate | to train a wild animal to be useful to humans |
| agriculture | farming |
| trade | buying and selling or exchanging items |
| ore | a mineral mined for its valuable uses |
| Australopithecus afarensis | "Southern Ape" from Africa about 3 to 4 mya |
| Homo habilis | "Handy Man" from Africa, that lived 1.5 to 2 mya |
| Homo erectus | "Upright Man" form Africa, Asia and Europe, that lived 1.8 mya to 200,000 BCE |
| Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis | "Wise Man from Neander Valley", from Africa, the Near East, Asia and Europe that lived from 230,000 to 30,000 years ao |
| Homo sapiens Sapiens | "Doubly Wise Man" from Europe, Aisa, Africa, Australia, North & South America that lived from 35,000 to 12,000 BCE |