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Paleolithic Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |