Stone Age Vocabulary

The study of the past based on artifacts that people left behind.

• Fossil

• Nomad

• Archeology

• Prehistory

Part or imprint of something that was once alive

• Fossil

• Stone Age

• Migration

• Land Bridge

Objects created and used by humans

• Agriculture

• Hunter

• Neolithic Era

• Artifact

The time before writing

• Prehistory

• Stone Age

• Nomad

• Paleolithic Era

The name historians give to the time before recorded history, divided into 3 Eras.

• Fossil

• Stone Age

• Land Bridge

• Nomad

Oldest era of the Stone Age, people used rocks as tools.

• Stone Age

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Migration

Middle era of the Stone Age, better tools invented.

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Stone Age

New Stone Age fire and farming is invented.

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Stone Age

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, nuts, seeds, and fruits to survive.

• Nomad

• Agriculture

• Land Bridge

• Hunter-gatherer

A person who wanders from place to place without a permanent home.

• Archeology

• Nomad

• Ice Ages

• Hunter-gatherer