Early Humans Vocabulary

A man-made object that tells about the culture or daily life of the people that used or created it

• Anthropology

• Artifact

• Fossil

• Chronology

Unwritten accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth.

• Oral History

• Artifact

• Fossil

• Chronology

The act of trading goods or services between two or more parties without the use of money.

• Barter System

• Artifact

• Fossil

• Chronology

What is the time period before a written language was created?

• History

• The baby years

• Prehistory

• Environment

Something that was created during or by someone who experienced an event or time period in history

• secondary source

• Neolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

• primary source

the movement of people and/or animals

• agriculture

• domestication

• nomad

• migration

A long period of reduced temperatures on Earth's surface, resulting in the expansion of polar ice.

• petroglyph

• domesticate

• nomad

• Ice Age

an amount or quantity greater than needed

• nomad

• scarcity

• surplus

• specialization

To live and remain in one place; not migratory

• sedentary

• migrate

• nomadic

• couch potato

A scientist who studies human development such as language and culture

• Anthropologist

• Historian

• Archaeologist

• Geographer