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The Stone Age REVIEW
Sec. 1, 2 & 3 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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migrate | move to a new place |
ice age | long period of freezing weather that happened about 1.6 million years ago |
land bridge | a strip of land connecting two continents |
Mesolithic Era | the Middle Stone Age |
Neolithic Era | New Stone Age |
domestication | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
agriculture | farming and domestication of plants and animals |
Megaliths | huge stones used as monuments |
Paleolithic Era | the Old Stone Age |
prehistory | time before there was writing |
hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
ancestor | a relative who lived long ago |
society | a community of people who share a common culture |
hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive |
flint | easy to shape mineral used to make very sharp tools |
tool | any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |