Ch.2 vocabulary

The First part of the Stone Age

• Bronze Age
• Neolithic period
• Paleolithic period
• Mesolithic era

Relative who lived in the past

• Hominid

• Ancestor
• Agrarian

• Descendant

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

• Hunter-gatherers
• Hominids

• Domestication

• Farmers-gatherers

The time before writing

• Prehistory

• History

• Stone age
• Primitive age

Strip of land connecting two continents

• Strait
• Land Bridge

• Domestication

• Migrate

Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task

• Adaptive device
• Society

• Paleolithic Era

• Tools

The Middle Stone Age

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Ice Age

• Mesolithic Era

The freezing times

• Paleolithic Era

• Ice Age

• Neolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

An early ancestor of humans

• Ancestor

• Hominid

• Domestication

• Hunter-gatherers

Not settled; moving in search of food or other necessities

• nomadic
• agrarian

• sedentary
• settled