Module 1 Vocabulary

the time before writing

• millenium

• prehistory

• archaeology

• chronology

a line marked off with a series of events and dates

• B.C./B.C.E.

• movement

• timeline

• chronology

beliefs, customs, & practices of a particular nation or group

• culture
• anthropology

• Paleolithic

• tradition

study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts

• anthropology
• prehistory

• archaeology
• relative location

exact position on earth in terms of longitude and latitude

• relative location

• chronology

• absolute location

• cultural diffusion

a relative who lived in the past

• Neolithic Era

• ancestor

• Paleolithic Era

• anthropology

the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans

• timeline

• A.D./C.E.

• agricuture

• domestication

farming

• domestication

• archaeology

• agriculture

• relative location

the old stone age

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Anthropology

the new stone age

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Anthropology