Early Humans Vocabulary

Which of the following are examples of artifacts?

• clothing

• tool

• skeleton

• bowl

• fossil

Prehistory

• the time before written records

• the time after records were kept

• a class in school

• a group of early humans.

Planting seeds to grow crops is called

Match the following word with the definition.

• a area with a surplus, jobs, cities

• specialization

• the shift from gathering food to farming

• complex village

• migrating from place to place

• domesticate

• skills in one type of job

• agriculture revolution

• tame animals or cultivate plants as food

• nomadic

Early humans stopped moving and stated farming in the ​ (a)  

• Neolithic Era
• Paleolithic Era
• Hominids
• Specialization

Since early hominids had limited communication, ____________were used to tell stories and pass along important information.

• cave paintings

• books

• specialization

• agriculture

A time of climate change that allowed early humans to travel to new land.

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Ice Age

• Early Humans

Match the following word part with the definition

• stone

• paleo

• before

• pre

• old

• lithic

• new

• new

Early humans during the ______________used stone tools and were nomadic.

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Agriculture Revolution

• Ice Age

An early ancestor of humans that started in Africa.

• hominids

• Fred Flinstone

• Neanderthals

• Kenyans