The Stone Ages & Early Cultures: Vocabulary

long periods of freezing weather

• ice ages

• migrate

• tool

• megalith

to move to a new place

• migrate

• culture

• climate

• geography

the New Stone Age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Jurassic Era

community of people who have the same culture

• society

• clan

• ancestor

• hominid

history before writing existed

• prehistory

• history

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

a piece, or strip, of land connecting two continents

• land bridge

• sgriculture

• landforms

• secondary source

people that must survive by hunting animals, gathering wild plants, seed, fruits, and nuts

• hunter-gatherers

• hominids

• ancestors

• megaliths

farming

• agriculture

• domestication

• culture

• climate

an object that has been modified or advanced to help someone accomplish a task

• tool

• agriculture

• archaeology

• artifact

a huge stone monument

• megalith

• landform

• artifact

• geography