| A | B |
| Prehistory | anything that happened before man was able to write |
| History | anything that has happened since man became able to keep a written record of it |
| Anthropologist | Study of skeletal remains to determine what they looked like, how they lived etc. |
| Archaeologist | study of artifacts, material objects made by people are artifacts |
| Culture | the traits a human group acquires through living together |
| Radio Carbon Dating | scientific method to determine how old an object is |
| Paleolithic Age | Old Stone Age |
| Mesolithic Age | Middle Stone Age |
| Neolithic age | New stone age |
| Skeletal remains of "Lucy" | in Africa(Ethiopia) |
| Remains of "Laetoli man" | in Africa (Tanzania) |
| Java Man | Found on Island of Java |
| Bejing man | Found in China |
| Ice age occurred | during the Paleolithic Period |