Chapter 1 The Development of Human Societies- Paleolithic Vs. Neolithic Age

Archaeologist

• a person who moves from place to place with no permanent home
• a scientist who studies the cultural development of humans
• a human who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to eat
• a scientist who studies past human life by analyzing artifacts
• biological classification of modern humans and is Latin for "the wise human" or the clever human."

Fossils

• a fertile place with water in a desert

• the remains of organisms that lived long ago

• a strip of land connecting two landmasses

• object made by humans from a past culture

• application of knowledge, tools, and invention to meet people's needs

Artifacts

• a group's way of life, including types of food, shelter, clothing, language, religion, behaviors, and ideas
• object made by humans from a past culture
• application of knowledge, tools, and invention to meet people's needs
• the large animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period
• was a land bridge connecting Russia and Alaska

Anthropologist

• a person who moves from place to place with no permanent home
• biological classification of modern humans and is Latin for "the wise human" or the clever human."
• a human who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to eat
• a scientist who studies the cultural development of humans
• a scientist who studies past human life by analyzing artifacts

Sahara

• a fertile place with water in a desert
• the large animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period
• fertile region of land the stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea in which many of the earliest farming villages were located
• a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times 13,000-8500 B.C
• A huge desert stretching across most of North Africa. Considered the largest desert in the world

Nomad

• a person who moves from place to place with no permanent home
• the raising of animals to make them useful to humans
• the practice of growing plants and rearing animals for food
• the movement from one place to another
  
• a new period brought on by the shift to agriculture when people realized that they could live on what they farmed rather on what they found.

Technology

• the raising of animals to make them useful to humans
• the practice of growing plants and rearing animals for food
• application of knowledge, tools, and invention to meet people's needs
• an artifact or piece of writing that were created by someone who witnessed or lived through a historical event
• biological classification of modern humans and is Latin for "the wise human" or the clever human."

Hunter-gatherer

• a group's way of life, including types of food, shelter, clothing, language, religion, behaviors, and ideas
• a human who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to eat
• encouraging the growth of crops and plants
• a person who moves from place to place with no permanent home
• an artifact or writing created after an event by someone who did not see it or live during the time when it occurred

Domestication

• a long period of dry, hot weather
• an unwritten account of events, often passed down through the generations as stories or songs
• a group's way of life, including types of food, shelter, clothing, language, religion, behaviors, and ideas
• a strip of land connecting two landmasses
• the raising animals to make them useful to humans

Agriculture

• the raising of animals to make them useful to humans
• a strip of land connecting two landmasses
• a group's way of life, including types of food, shelter, clothing, language, religion, behaviors, and ideas
• the practice of growing plants and rearing animals for food
• was a land bridge connecting Russia and Alaska