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Paleolithic Age
Question | Answer |
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Paleolithic | means "Old Stone" |
nomads | People who regularly move from place to place to survive |
technology | Tools and methods to perfrom tasks |
Ice Age | Long periods of extreme cold that affected all of Earth |
Hunter-Gatherer | A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild food; the main human activity for the first 2 million years of humanity |
domesticate | To tame plants and animals for human use |
band | a small family group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory |
Paleolithic Era | The earliest part of the Stone Age when people lived by hunting and gathering |
flint | a hard stone that was used to make tools in the Paleolithic Era |
fire | Paleolithic age humans learned to use it for protection and cooking |
Paleo | Greek root word for ancient or old |
lithos | Greek word meaning stone |
resource | something used to fulfill a need |
flaking | a process of shaping stone by chipping pieces off the edges |
2.5 Million | The Paleolithic Era lasted about ________________________ years. |
easier | The development of technology during the Stone Age made life _______________________. |
spear | The _____________________________ was important hunting technology for the Stone Age people. |
bands | Wandering nomads lived in small groups called __________________________. |
temperary | Paleolithic Age hunter-gatherers lived in ____________________________ homes. |