Early Humans Vocab

A time when early people used stone to make weapons and tools. Includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.

• Stone Age

• Ice Age

• Nomads

• Systematic Agriculture

The earliest period of the Stone Age, humans began using stone to make tools and weapons.

• Ice Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Mesolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

Early nomads who would move from place to place in search of food - often chasing animal herds and gathering plants and berries along the way.

• Paleolithic Age

• Systematic Agriculture

• Ice Age

• Hunter-gatherers

People who travel from place to place in search of food.

• Cave Art

• Mesolithic Age

• Nomads

• Stone Age

Art painted on the side of cave walls typically depicting hunting and animals.

• Cave art

• Systematic Agriculture

• Hunter-gatherers

• Neolithic Age

A bridge made of earth that connected Asia and North America. Early people used the bridge to travel to new parts of the world.

• Stone Age

• land bridge

• Nomads

• Systematic Agriculture

A long period of extreme cold.

• Paleolithic Age

• Ice Age

• Mesolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

The final period of the Stone Age. It is characterized by farming and domestication of animals.

• Paleolithic Age

• Ice Age

• Mesolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

Growing crops on a regular basis using annual farming practices.

• Hunter-gatherers

• Nomads

• Systematic Agriculture

• Neolithic Age

The prefix "paleo" means...

• pale

• ancient or old

• stone

• without tools