Unit 2 Vocabulary

A person that searches widely for food or provisions.

• forager

• farmer

• fossil

• hominid

Historical era when humans hunted and gathered, lived in small groups, and made tools out of wood and bone.

• Stone Age

• Neolithic

• Paleolithic

• Iron Age

A prehistoric human.

• fossil

• hominid

• anthropologist

• archaeologist

To move from one geographic region to another.

• nomad

• forager

• migrate

• sedentary

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

• fossil

• anthropologist

• prehistoric

• stone age

The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other non-metallic substances.

• Iron Age

• Stone Age

• Prehistoric

• Middle Ages

A person who moves from place to place in search of food.

• anthropologist

• farmer

• nomad

• migrate

A scientist who studies human development and culture.

• anthropologist

• archaeologist

• biologist

• chemist

A scientist who learns about ancient people by studying the things they left behind.

• anthropologist

• archaeologist

• biologist

• chemist

The historical time period before recorded or written history.

• hominids

• nomad

• Iron Age

• prehistoric