| A | B |
| migrate | to move from one place to another |
| prehistory | time before people learned how to write |
| civilization | society with a developed knowledge of farming, trade, government, art, and science |
| bands | prehistoric groups of about 30 people that gathered food and lived together |
| Paleolithic Age | age that the first people lived, also known as the Old Stone Age |
| home territory | area each band stayed in until the food was gone |
| Ice Age | caused migration due to lack of food and heat |
| tools | first made of sticks and stones |
| fire | when invented aided in eating and digestion |
| caves | only used in emergencies at first by humans |
| Lucy | first skeleton of early prehuman |
| language | was developed due to social needs |
| Homo Habilis | first people on earth, "skillful man" |
| Homo Erectus | came after homo habilis, "man who walks upright" |
| Homo Sapiens | Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. "man who thinks" |
| pitfalls | traps set by Neanderthals |
| Cro-Magnon | considered to be the first modern human beings |
| Neanderthals | good hunters, first to bury their dead |
| axe | invented by the Cro-Magnons |
| mammoth bone shelters | built by the Neaderthals |