Unit 2: The Stone Age, Power Words

A change in global or regional climate patterns

• Archaeologist

• Climate Change

• Hunter Gatherer

• The Stone Age

The process of taming an animal or the cultivation of a plant for food

• Climate Change

• Archaeologist

• Paleolithic Period

• Domestication

A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains

• Archaeologist

• Hunter-Gatherer

• hominids

• domestication

A human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)

• Domestication

• Archaeologist

• Hunter-gatherer

• homo sapiens

the primate species to which modern humans belong: humans regarded as a species. Lived from approx. 4,000 BC to present time.

• Homonids

• Homo sapiens

• Homo erectus

• homo habilis

Means "upright man," lived from approx. 1.6 million to 250,000 BC

• Homo erectus

• Homo sapiens

• hominids

• homo habilis

Early form of hominids, first to use stone tools. Lived from approx. 2.5 million to 1.5 million.

• Archaeologist

• Homo erectus

• Homo sapiens

• Homo habilis

of erect primate mammals that includes recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms

• Hominids

• Hunter-Gatherers

• Archaeologitst

• Stone Age

Later phase of the Stone Age, approx. 8,000 BC to 3,000 BC. Period where only homo sapiens lived.

• Paleolithic Period

• Mesolithic Period

• Neolithic Period

• Modern Period

Middle phase of the Stone Age, approx. 10,000 BC to 6,000 BC

• Paleolithic Period

• Mesolithic Period

• Neolithic Period

• Modern Period