Unit 1: Prehistory

time before humans invented writing

• prehistory

• fossil

• civilization

• artifact

scientist who studies human life in the past by examining the things that people left behind

• Paleontologist

• Archeologist

• Geology

• Paleontology

preserved remains of ancient human, animal, or plant

• Nomad

• Artifact

• Fossil

• Migrate

What is the term for a society with a high level of cultural and technological development?

• Domesticate

• Migrate

• Hominin

• Civilization

change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans

• Civilization

• Migration

• Domesticate

• Excavation

to move from one region to another in order to live there

• Migrate

• Domestication

• Excavation

• Preservation

object made by a human being

• Fossil

• Hunter-gatherer

• Hominin

• Artifact

refers to the an extinct species of early humans who lived in The Stone Ages

• Nomad

• Hominin

• Hunter-gatherer

• Civilization

the New Stone Age, where early man invented farming and domesticating animals 

• Neolithic Era

• Civilization

• Nomad

• Paleolithic Era

person who moves from place to place without a permanent home

• Hominin

• Nomad

• Archeologist

• Prehistory