Early People vocab

Study of artifacts, often unearthed by excavation to study people of the past

• archaeology

• history

• geography

• paleontology

Someone who uses artifacts to study the way people lived in the past

• historian

• paleontologist

• archeologist

• geologist

very old

• historic

• artifact

• culture

• archaic

handmade object made by people from the past

• culture

• artifact

• archaic

• flint

the way of life shared by a group of people

• culture

• artifact

• archaic

• Paleo

act or process of digging

• flint

• archaic

• excavation

• Paleo

the description of a family of plants or animals that has died out

• Paleo

• archaic

• prehistoric

• extinct

a kind of hard rock used for making tools and points for arrows and spears

• Paleo

• archaic

• flint

• extinct

the written story of the past

• Paleo

• historic

• prehistoric

• archaic

Moving from one place to another to stay there

• Paleo

• extinct

• prehistoric

• migrate