prehistory vocab

Question 1

prehistory

Answer 1

the period before writing was developed

Question 2

archaeology

Answer 2

the study of past societies through an analysis of what people left behind

Question 3

artifacts

Answer 3

tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings and household items left behind by early people

Question 4

anthropology

Answer 4

the study of human life and culture

Question 5

fossils

Answer 5

a remanant or impression of an organism from a part geological age that had been perserved in the earths crust

Question 6

radiocarbon dating

Answer 6

a method of dating organic remains based on their content of carbon

Question 7

hominid

Answer 7

humans and other human like creatures that walked upright

Question 8

Australopithecus

Answer 8

the earliest human like creature (lucy)

Question 9

homo sapiens sapiens

Answer 9

wise wise humans

Question 10

“out of africa” theory

Answer 10

refers to when homo sapiens sapiens spread out of africa

Question 11

paleolithic era

Answer 11

the early part of the stone age, beginning of making tools

Question 12

neolithic revolution

Answer 12

the end of the stone age, development of systematic agriculture

Question 13

systematic agriculture

Answer 13

the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis

Question 14

domestication

Answer 14

adaption for human use

Question 15

Mesolithic age

Answer 15

the middle part of the stone age

Question 16

irrigation

Answer 16

supplying water to agricultural land by artificial needs

Question 17

surplus

Answer 17

foods/goods produced that are extra and not needed