| A | B |
|---|
| Neolithic Period | smooth tools; New Stone Age, agriculture developed |
| Paleolithic Period | Used rough tools, Old Stone Age |
| Lascaux Caves | Located in France more than 600 painted animals and symbols |
| Radio-Carbon Dating | Process by which artifacts are dated |
| Prehistory | Time before written records |
| Nomad | People that move from place to place |
| Polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| Scribe | workers who make hand written copies of documents |
| Fossils | remains of plant or animals of a past age preserved in earth's crust |
| Artifact | objects made by humans such as tools, pottery, jewlery |
| Archaeologist | scientists who study bones and other objects |
| Cultural Diffusion | process in which a new idea or product speaks from one culture to another |
| Neolithic Settlements | Farming was essential in these settlements |
| BCE/CE | Before Common Era and Common Era |
| Cuneiform | writing system developed by Sumerians wedge shaped marks cut into clay tablets |
| Domestication | taming of animals for human use |
| Latitude | lines running east and west and measure north and south |
| Longitude | lines running north and south and measure east and west |
| Absolute Location | location, intersection of a line of latitude and longitude |
| Relative Location | location, based on surrounding features, near Starbuck's |
| Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude |
| Equator | 0 degrees latitude |
