A | B |
prehistory | the time before there was writing |
hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
tool | any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
Paleolithic Era | the first part of the Stone Age; OLD STONE AGE |
society | a community of people who shar a common culture |
hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits and nuts to survive |
migrate | to move |
ice ages | the freezing times |
land bridge | a strip of land connecting two continents |
Mesolithic Era | the Middle Stone Age |
Neolithic Era | the New Stone Age |
domestication | process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
agriculture | farming |
megaliths | huge stones used as monuments |