Vocabulary The Paleolithic Era

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• oasis

• a habitat of large animals

• Beringia

• the technology of tools

oasis

• long period of hot ,dry weather

• a fertile, green area of water in a desert

• drought

• migration from Texas to California

megafauna

• human bones

• growing plants

• artifacts

• saber tooth tiger

anthropologist

• studies ancient climate

• studies ancient mathematics

• studies ancient culture

• studies fossils

archaeologist

• interprets language

• schedules appointments

• disciplines animals

• analyzes fossils

culture

• religion

• language

• music

• all the above

migration

• caused people to stay in one place

• caused the earth to dry out

• caused people to seek out food and move

• caused the Ice Age

What is the Paleolithic Era?

• a time period of meat eaters

• when the earliest humans collided with the Ice Age

• The Old Stone - a period that lasted from about 2.5 million to 8000 BCE

• the practice of determining the age of a fossil

The era also known as the "New Stone Age".

• Mesolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesozoic Era

Which of the following was a major advancement for paleolithic people?

• Fire

• Writing

• Farming

• Domestication