Stone Age Vocab Review

the time before there was writing

• prehistory
• hominid
• ancestor
• tool

an early ancestor of humans

• prehistory
• hominid
• ancestor
• tool

a relative who lived in the past

• prehistory
• hominid
• ancestor
• tool

any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task

• prehistory
• hominid
• ancestor
• tool

first part of the Stone Age or Old Stone Age

• Paleolithic Era
• society
• hunter-gathers
• migrate

a community of people who share a common culture

• Paleolithic Era
• society
• hunter-gathers
• migrate

people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

• Paleolithic Era
• society
• hunter-gathers
• migrate

move

• Paleolithic Era
• society
• hunter-gathers
• migrate

long periods of freezing weather that ended about 10,000 years ago

• Ice ages
• land bridges
• Mesolithic Era
• Neolithic Era

strip of land connecting two continents

• Ice ages
• land bridges
• Mesolithic Era
• Neolithic Era