Life in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era

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  1. 3. The way of living where small groups of people move from place to place in pursuit of migrating animals.
  2. 5. - The first known hominid. They walked on two legs, appeared in Africa about 4-5 million years ago, and their brains were about a third the size of modern human brains.
  3. 7. The name of the earliest australopithecine skeleton ever dug up. It was discovered by Donald Johanson.
  4. 8. The time in history before writing was invented.
  5. 10. Big rock formations built for religious purposes (like Stonehenge).
  6. 12. The era in pre-history called The New Stone Age. It lasted from 10,000 B.C.E to 5,000 B.C.E.
  7. 14. The earliest recorded settlement from 7,000 B.C.E. It was located in present-day Turkey and had a few thousand people.
  8. 15. A British archaeologist who found skull fragments that were 1.75 million years old. She also found footprints that were 3.5 million years old which proved hominids walked on two feet.
  9. 16. The hominid that appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago. They migrated around the world, created the first languages, used many tools, and were the same species as modern humans.
  10. 18. The study of people and culture.
  11. 19. The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs and technology from one country to another. It spread when groups of people migrated around the world.
  12. 21. The movement of humans starting in Africa and travelling gradually to the Americas, Asia, Europe and Australia.
  13. 23. Creatures who walked upright and were the start of evolution that led to humans
  14. 24. The selective growing/breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.
  15. 26. The practice of digging up the past.
  16. 27. Dug up items that show culture, for example tools, weapons, or pottery. These objects help us understand the past.
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  1. 1. A cave with 600+ symbols and images of animals that people created between 17,000 and 15,000 years ago. It covers many walls and ceilings of the cave.
  2. 2. As job specializations and societies developed, this developed as well. It was based on people’s wealth and influence. A hierarchy was put into place, with people like priests and rulers at the top, merchants and farmers in the middle, and enslaved people at the bottom.
  3. 4. The start of agriculture, which was the turning point in history and made life flourish.
  4. 6. The area of ocean that separates Asia and North America. During the ice age, ocean levels were much lower, so it was an exposed land bridge. Hominids walked across it and migrated into North America.
  5. 9. When women and men are equal in societies.
  6. 11. - The hominid that appeared in Africa about 2.4 million years ago, developed stone tools, and whose brains were half the size of modern humans’.
  7. 13. People who hunted, fished, and gathered wild foods/plants. Men were the ones who hunted food and women gathered food. Since the jobs were considered equally difficult, men and women were equal.
  8. 17. The era in pre-history called The Old Stone Age. It started 2.5 million years ago and ended 10,000 years ago.
  9. 20. Skilled craftspeople who devoted almost all of their time to making crafts like pottery, jewelry, dishes, textiles, etc.
  10. 22. The hominid that appeared in Africa about 2-1.5 million years ago. They used stone tools and were the first to control fire and migrate out of Africa.
  11. 25. A man from the Neolithic era whose body was frozen in ice and preserved there.