The process of taming an animal or the cultivation of a plant for food

A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains

A human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)

the primate species to which modern humans belong: humans regarded as a species. Lived from approx. 4,000 BC to present time.

Means "upright man," lived from approx. 1.6 million to 250,000 BC

Early form of hominids, first to use stone tools. Lived from approx. 2.5 million to 1.5 million.

of erect primate mammals that includes recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms

Later phase of the Stone Age, approx. 8,000 BC to 3,000 BC. Period where only homo sapiens lived.

Middle phase of the Stone Age, approx. 10,000 BC to 6,000 BC

The early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone tools were used.

A prehistoric period when weapons and tools were made of stone or of organic materials such as bone, wood, or horn.