Neolithic and Paleolithic Age Vocabulary

Early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years when primitive stone implements were used.

Later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements. The period when people got better at farming. Hunter-gatherers became farmers. The term New Stone Age is used to describe the time when people started farming. This was when they grew cereal plants and domesticated animals.

A scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts.

Remains, impression or trace of a living thing from a former geologic age. (a skeleton, footprint)

before the Common Era

the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth

The point at which a very significant change occurs.

Neolithic site in present day Turkey.

Having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

Staying or living in the same place instead of moving to different places.