A | B |
Paleolithic | Old Stone Age |
Neolithic | New Stone Age |
Prehistory | refers to the long period of time before people invented systems of writing |
pastoralism | the practice of herding (like herding sheep or cattle) |
domesticate | to tame (like tame an animal) |
archaeology | the study of past people and cultures |
technology | the skills and tools people used to meet their basic needs |
nomad | people who moved from place to place following game animals |
historian | a person who studies how poeple lived in the past |
artifact | objects made by humans (like tools, weapons, pottery, clothing) |
farming | The event that marked the beginning of the Neolithic Age was ____. |
animism | The belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that lived in animals , objects, or dreams. |
belief in animism, an afterlife, worship of earth mother-goddesses | Religious beliefs during the Old Stone Age |
calendar, workshops for toolmaking, use of animals to farm | Three technologies that were invented during the Neolithic Age |
pastoralism | The domestication of animals let to ____. |
England | Where is Stonehenge? |
geography | the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them |
Lucy | the remains (bones) of an early human found by Donald Johnson in Ethiopia |
culture | refers to the way of life that is handed down from generation to generation |
hunters and gatherers | Paleolithic people were mostly ______ and _______. |
the rise of cities | The main feature of civilization was ______. |
surplus | extra |