| A | B |
| Old Stone Age | period from at least 2 million B.C to about 10,000 B.C. |
| Paleolithic Period | Another phrase for Old Stone Age |
| New Stone Age | period from about 10,000 B.C. to the end of prehistory |
| Neolithic Period | another phrase for New Stone Age |
| nomad | people who move from place to place to find food |
| animism | belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that resided in animals, objects & dreams |
| Neolithic Revolution | transition from nomadic life to settled farming that brought about dramatic change |
| domesticate | raising plants & animals in a controlled way |
| Catalhuyuk | a site archaeologists unearthed containing some of the first Neolithic Villages |
| Jericho | Israeli controlled city today - also an early Neolithic village |