Stone Age Vocabulary to know

Technology

• computers and Ipads

• all tools made to meet people's needs

• stones

Surplus

• not enough of something

• to have an EXTRA supply of something

• to have just enough

artifacts

• things made by humans long ago

• animal fossils

• nomads

Catal Huyuk

• tools made to meet people's needs

• things made by humans long ago

• a well-known Neolithic community in present day Turkey

fossils

• traces of plants or animals preserved in rock

• tools made to meet people's needs

• things made by humans long ago

specialization

• the development of different kind of jobs

• to tame animals or plants for human use

• sheets of ice covering the Earth

Nomads

• traces of plants and animals preserved in rock

• people who regularly move from place to place

• tools made to meet people's needs

Domesticate

• great sheets of ice covered the Earth

• to develop different kinds of jobs

• to tame animals or plants for human use

Archaeologist

• people who regularly move from place to place

• scientist who studies artifacts and fossils to help people understand the past.

• a well known Neolithic community

prehistory

• before written history

• after written history