Stone Age Vocab

Stone Age

• A period of prehistory when people made tools from stone, bone, and wood

• remaining in one place

• A person who moves from place to place in search of food

Agriculture

• Scientist who learns abut past human life by studying fossils and artifacts

• farming

• prehistoric art found in caves

Sedentary

• remain in one place

• to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control

• A strip of land that connects two larger landmasses, enabling migration of people, animals, and plants

Preserve

• prehistoric art found in caves

• the period of time before written records

• maintain (something) in its original or existing state

Archeologist

• A person who moves from place to place in search of food

• Scientist who learns abut past human life by studying fossils and artifacts

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

Clan

• A group of related families

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

• In Europe, another human species lived and adapted to life in the cold climates of the last Ice Age

Nomad

• A period of prehistory when people made tools from stone, bone, and wood

• A group of related families

• A person who moves from place to place in search of food

Domesticate

• a species also referred to as Homo Sapiens; seems to have replaced the Neandertals

• A group of related families

• to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control

Hunter-Gatherer

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

• to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control

• a species also referred to as Homo Sapiens; seems to have replaced the Neandertals

Land Bridge

• maintain (something) in its original or existing state

• A strip of land that connects two larger landmasses, enabling migration of people, animals, and plants

• farming