PRE HISTORY Flashcards
WHERE they found stone tools in Uae?
In Jabal Faya in sharjah
The objects show us that the stone age people lived in the Arabian peninsula. True or False
True
What is nomadic?
It means you are moving from place to place to find food
What they do as nomadic?
They use stone tools to hunt animals and collect plants for food.
Why you call this period stone age.
They use stone tools to hunt animals and collect plants for food.
What is paleolithic and what is it known for?
It the period over 10,000 BCE and it is the oldest stone age.
What is Mesolithic and what do they do?
it means the middle stone age, it is about 10,000 BCE to about 8,000 BCE and people are still nomadic in that period but they use dogs for hunting.
What is Neolithic and what do they do?
it means the new stone age, it is about 8,000 BCE up to 4,000 BCE and people started to settle in one place and they began farming and raising animals.
What are archaeologists?
They study early human history and study the artefacts.
What is artefacts?
They are objects made by people and used by people.
Example of artefacts:
stone tools such as axes and arrowheads and cave paintings are another to know how people live in the stone age and they often show their importance to animals.
Stone age paintings that are 17,000 years old are found in… and they show…
caves in Lascaux, France. horses dears, and Auroch (an old type of bull).
What are building and structures tells us?
Tells about the lives of the people who used them…
What is the name of the southern turkey buildings in the stone age?
Catalhoyuk
The remains of houses built next to each other and other structures on that side are over 10,000 years old. True or False.
True
