PreHistory Vocabulary Practice

the period of time before written records, the years before 3000 B.C.

• prehistory

• sedentary

• domesticate

• nomadic

earliest known period of human culture, tools were made of stone

• Paleolithic Age

• Stone Age

• Neolithic AGe

“Old Stone Age” – humans as nomadic hunter-gatherers

• Paleolithic Age

• Stone Age

• Neolithic Age

“New Stone Age” – humans as settled farmers 

• Paleolithic Age

• Stone Age

• Neolithic Age

group that has no permanent home; migrates constantly

• nomadic

• hunter-gatherers

early humans who moved constantly to follow food sources

• nomadic

• hunter-gatherers

the change from hunter-gatherer society to farming (agriculture)

• Neolithic Revolution

• Sedentary Revolution

• Domesticate Revolution

group of humans who are settled in one area; permanent

• sedentary

• domisticate

• nomadic

to tame & use animals for a purpose

• sedentary

• domesticate

• nomadic

B.C. means

• Best Case

• Before Christ

• Anno Domini