Digging Up the Past : Lesson 2 Early Farmers

A time when people made their tools out of stone, wood bone and antlers. It ended when people learned to make tools and weapons out of metal.

• Age of Man

• Rock Age

• Stone Age

• Age of Technology

A late Neolithic village in Northern Scotland (Orkeny Islands) discovered by archaeologists in the 1800s. Dates back to 1500 BCE. Special storage areas for grain and sturdy houses were found

• Skara Brae

• Topper Site

• Clovis, New Mexico

• Monte Verde, Chile

The era of prehistory that lasted from 3.5 million B.C. to about 10,000 B.C.

• New Stone Age

• The Rolling Stones

• The Dawn of Time

• Old Stone Age

The way in which humans produce the items they use to make their lives easier.

• calculators

• technology

• nets

• spearpoints

The final era of prehistory, which began about 10,000 B.C.E. and ended around 5,000 B.C.E. also called the Neolithic Period. This period is defined by new techniques in stone working. Polished rock for knives and spearheads were more widespread.

• Dawn of Man

• Old Stone Age

• Stones of Skara Brae

• New Stone Age

The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans by taking them out of the wild.

• speculation

• domestication

• evaluation

• contemplation

The gathering of ripe crops for a season.

• harvest

• planting

• cutting

• surplus

A place where archaeologists dig and uncover artifacts

• explanation site

• excavation site

• garbage dump

• thrift site

Another word for farming, it is the raising of plants and animals for human use

• stop and shop

• cultivation

• aquaculture

• agriculture

an extra supply of agricultural products such as crops and animals

• support

• savory

• surplus

• Slurpee