Early Humans Vocabulary

Before Common Era

• BCE

• CE

• Stone Age

• Paleolithic

Common Era

• BCE

• CE

• Stone Age

• Paleolithic

A time when early people used stone to make weapons and tools.

• BCE

• CE

• Stone Age

• Paleolithic

Early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years when primitive stone tools were used by nomadic tribes of early humans.

• BCE

• CE

• Stone Age

• Paleolithic

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

• Nomadic

• Migration

• Neolithic

• Sedentary

Movement from one country, place, or locality to another.

• Nomadic

• Migration

• Neolithic

• Sedentary

Later part of the Stone Age when more sedentary people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements.

• Nomadic

• Migration

• Neolithic

• Sedentary

Staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places in search of food and shelter.

• Nomadic

• Migration

• Neolithic

• Sedentary

Also known as agricultural revolution. A fundamental change in the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture; it led to permanent shelter.

• Neolithic Revolution

• Mesolithic

• Agriculture

• Domestication

The time period known as the Middle Stone Age.

• Neolithic Revolution

• Mesolithic

• Agriculture

• Domestication