Early Humans Vocabulary

an object created and used by people in the past

• fossil

• artifact

• nomad

• surplus

the order in which events happen in time

• chronological order

• prehistory

• history

• primary source

a first-hand account of an event or time period in history

• Agricultural Revolution

• Neolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

• primary source

a craftworker

• artisan

• artifact

• nomad

• pastoral nomad

the time period before written records

• history

• chronological order

• prehistory

• specialization

the taming of animals to be used by humans

• agriculture

• domestication

• migration

• Neolithic Revolution

the time period since writing was invented

• prehistory

• Paleolithic Age

• history

• Old Stone Age

a social scientist who studies the past by examining fossils and artifacts

• anthropologist

• historian

• geographer

• archaeologist

the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; also known as farming

• prehistory

• agriculture

• domestication

• sedentary

the movement of people and/or animals

• agriculture

• domestication

• nomad

• migration