| A | B |
|---|
| excavate | dig artifacts from the ground |
| archeologist | person who looks for old things |
| fossil | plants and animals changed to stone |
| hominid, hominin | animals that stand up straight |
| homo erectus | first people to go to Europe and Asia |
| Neanderthal | first people to bury dead |
| homo sapiens sapiens | appeared in Africa 150,000 years ago |
| harpoon | spear to catch fish |
| hook | small bone to catch fish |
| Paleolithic | means Old Stone |
| fires were first made by | homo erectus |
| fires were used for | warmth, cooking, scaring animals |
| four million years ago | when first humans lived in Africa |
| 1.5 million years ago | when homo erectus appeared |
| 250,000 years ago | when homo sapiens appeared |
| Germany | where Neanderthal people lived |
| 100,000 years ago | when first people lived in area of Uruk |
| 50,000 years ago | when first people lived in Australia |
| animals Paleolithic people hunted | bison, horses, buffalo, deer |
| Ice Age | 8,000 - 100,000 years ago |
| prehistory | before written language |
| archaeology | study of artifacts from long ago |
| Australopithecine | "southern apes" 3-4M years ago |
| artifacts | tools, pottery, weapons from a culture |
| nomad | people who move from place to place |
| herd | a group of large animals |
| skeleton | all the bones of an animals |
| Neathanderthal | first people to bury their dead |
| survive | keep living |
| caves | first homes for Paleolithic people |
| huts | first homes made by people |
| Ice Age | when the earth was covered with ice |
| Lascaux | cave with Paleolithic paintings |
| systematic agriculture | growing food and keeping animals |
| domestication of animals | keeping animals with people |
| Jericho | farming village of 8000 BC |
| Catal Huyuk | 6000 people here in 6700 BC |
| wheat and barley | crops in SW Asia in 8000 BC |
| yams and bananas | crops in Africa in 6000 BC |
| beans, squash, maize | crops in Mexico in 7000 BC |
| artisans | people who make jewelry and weapons |
| copper | first metal used in tools 4000 BC |
| bronze | copper + tin |
| Bronze Age | 3000 - 1200 BC |
| culture | way of life |
| civilization | cities, govt., religion, writing, art, social structure |
