Neolithic Revolution Vocabulary

The belief that spirits inhabit plants, animals, or other natural objects is known as this.

• Catalhuyuk

• animism

• nomads

• domesticate

A larger Neolithic site in modern-day Turkey. It dates back to about 7,200 B.C. and may have had a population of 6,500 people. The village included hundreds of rectangular mud-brick houses all connected and all about the same size.

• Mesopotamia

• Jericho

• Towson

• Catalhuyuk

This refers to the goods left over after all needs have been met.

• deficit

• precise production

• overabundance

• surplus

The Neolithic Period, also called this, is the final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans.

• New Stone Age

• Old Stone Age

• Caveman Times

• Hunter-gather Era

Also known as the Paleolithic Period, this was ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools.

• New Stone Age

• Neolithic Period

• Old Stone Age

• Ice Age

People who move from place to place in search of food.

This means to raise plants and animals in a controlled way that makes them best suited to human use.

This refers to the change in human societies from hunting and gathering to a more settled way of life based on agriculture and the domestication of animals.

The study of past people and cultures through their material remains.

• anthropology

• archaeology

• astronomy

• historian

The study of humans, past and present.

• felinology

• astronomy

• archaeology

• anthropology