Stone Age Vocabulary

The earliest known period of human culture, marked by the creation and use of stone tools

• New Stone Age

• Old Stone Age

• Ice Age

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

• ice age hunters

• Stone Age hunters

• hunters-gatherers

Agriculture

• hunting

• gathering

• farming

To train animals and plants

• Specialize

• Domesticate

• Agricutlture

A culture that has specialization, religion, learning, and government

• Specialization

• Domestication

• Civilization

Located in Zululand, home of the first Old Stone Age hunters and gatherers

• Border Cave

• Pyramid of Giza

• Great Wall of China

Paintings on cave walls and ceilings from prehistoric times

• Cave writings

• Cave artists

• Cave paintings

The beginning of farming in the Stone Age, raising crops and animals for human use

• Industry

• Agriculture

• Revolutionary War

Cave paintings during the Stone Age were the first type of writing found

• True

• False

During the Stone Age, people did NOT have a form of writing

• True

• False