Pre-History vocab Flashcards
Paleolithic definition and 5 features of a paleolithic culture
Paleo meaning old lithic meaning stone
Features: Hunter/gatherers, Believe in animism, Nomads, Language, Basic tools,Could make fire
Neolithic definition and 5 features of a neolithic culture
Neo meaning new lithic meaning stone
Features: hunter/gatherers/farmers, settled, increased population, increased time, complex tools, animal domestication
Prehistory
Refers to the long time period before people invented writing
Anthropologist
Studies human interaction with one another
Archaeologist
Finds and analyzes the physical remain left by people (art, artifacts, architecture and remain)
Historian
Summarize information puts it all together
Paleontologist
Studies fossils evidence of life and preserved in rocks
Artifact
Something man-made such as a tool or a work of art
Fossil
Naturally made once living organisms
Domestication
Taming of animals for human use. First driven into rocky ravines and then into man made areas
Hunter gatherer
one who depends on hunting food and collecting plant foods to survive
Slash-and-burn-farming
a farming method in which people clear fields by cutting and burning down trees and grasses. The ashes are then used as a fertilizer.
Agricultural revolution/Neolithic revolution
domestication of animals and when farming became an available option of food producing rather than food gathering
Stone Age
Characterized by new technology, paleolithic and Neolithic
Civilization
A stage of cultural development that is considered most advanced
