Early Man Vocabulary

A human made object especially from long ago.

• archeologist

• artifact

• fossil

The kind of weather a place has over a long period of time.

• climate

• migration

• ice age

Domesticated animals, such as cattle, sheep, and pigs, that provide a resource.

• extinct

• livestock

• hominin

A society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and centers of learning.

• oral history

• chronology

• civilization

A scientist who locates and studies the things left behind by people long ago.

• hominin

• nomad

• archaeologist

A time period when vast glaciers reshaped the land and caused changes in climate.

• ice age

• extinct

• turning point

The remains of living things that have been preserved by being changed into minerals over time.

• artifact

• fossil

• migration

Movement of people from one place to another.

• culture

• chronology

• migration

The STUDY of the past based on what people left behind.

• agriculture

• archaeology

• artifact

Humans and their early ancestors.

• hominin

• nomad

• chronology