Prehistory Flashcards
1
Q
Artifact
A
something made and used by humans long ago
2
Q
nomad
A
someone who moves from place to place/has no permanent home
3
Q
domesticate
A
train or tame a plant or animal for human use
4
Q
A.D
A
years since the time of christ
5
Q
B.C
A
year before the time of christ
6
Q
Megalith
A
large stones that formed prehistoric monuments
7
Q
paleolithic
A
old stone age
8
Q
neolthic
A
new stone age
9
Q
prehistory
A
time before recording
10
Q
stone age
A
first known period of human culture
11
Q
some facts about prehistory
A
oldest and longest period of human history
began more then a million years ago
ended about 5000 years ago with invention of writing
12
Q
how can you tell how old a fossil is?
A
carbon-14 dating
13
Q
where was the fist sign of man?
A
africa
14
Q
why do they call it the stone age?
A
made tools out of stone nomads searching for food hunter gatherers adaptation fire simple language
15
Q
what was the oldest found cave peinting?
A
30-40k years ago
