Early Man Vocabulary

The time period before written records.

• Prehistory

• Ancestor

• Bipedal

• Society

The surroundings where a person or animal lives.

• Nomads

• Migration

• Paleolithic Era

• Environment

To change in order to survive.

• Society

• Adapt

• Agriculture

• Exchange

Relatives or family members who lived in the past

• Homo Sapiens

• Ancestor

• MIgration

• Society

"Old" Stone Age: occurred between 2.6 million - 10,000 years ago. Most people were hunter-gatherers.

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Domestication

• Agricultural Revolution

"New" Stone Age: occurred 10,000 years ago and is known for the development of agriculture.

• Environment

• Homo Sapiens

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

A group of people living together within a community.

• Bipedal

• Society

• Migration

• Agricultural Revolution

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to get food.

• Hunters-Gatherers

• Agriculture

• Neolithic Era

• Bipedal

People without a permanent home who move from place to place.

• Domestication

• Nomads

• Adapt

• Migration

"Wise man" and the group including modern-day humans, which is believed to be the first hominid to develop language.

• Homo Sapiens

• Domestication

• Ancestor

• Hunter-Gatherers