The Stone Age

Meaning "upright man"

• hominids

• homo sapiens

• homo erectus

• archaeologist

a prehistoric period where weapons and tools were made of stone or organic materials such as bone and wood.

• Paleolithic Period

• The Stone Age

• homo habilis

• Neolithic Period

The process of taming an animal or the cultivation of a plant for food.

• hunter- gatherer

• hominids

• domestication

• nomads

The earliest phase of the Stone Age

• Neolithic Period

• Mesolithic Period

• The Stone Age

• Paleolithic Period

first to use stone tools, early form of hominids

• homo habilis

• The Stone Age

• hominids

• nomads

food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)

• domestication

• hunter-gatherer

• archaeologist

• homo erectus

a person who studies human history and analyzes ancient artifacts

• archaeologist

• ice glaciers

• cave paintings

• Mary Leakey

Hunter- gatherers were _______, who migrated frequently.

• Lucy

• nomads

• archaeologists

• The Stone Age

Early forms of communication were expressed in _______

• speech

• cave paintings

• ice glaciers

The hominid skeleton was named ________, after a Beatles song

• Lucy

• Turkana Boy

• Mary Leakey