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Stone ages
vocab
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| the time period before written records | Prehistory |
| the study of humans and their development, including human culture and human behavior | Anthropology |
| relatives or family members who lived in the past | Ancestor |
| the application of science and engineering to create tools that improve quality of life | Technology |
| a handheld object that is designed to help complete a specific task | Tool |
| period of time where humans invented and primarily used stone tools | Stone Ages |
| Old Stone Age , which occurred circa 2.6 years-10,000 years ago | Paleolithic Era |
| New Stone Age, which occurred circa 10,000 years ago and is most associated with the shift from hunting and gathering to agricultre | Neolithic Era |
| a group of people living together within a community | Society |
| people who hunt animals and gather wild plants to acquire food | Hunter-Gatherers |
| people without a permanent home, either individually or as a community, who move from place to place | Nomads |
| movement from one location to another, in order to establish a new permanent settlement | Migration |
| time periods with consistently freezing temperatures throughout the world | Ice Ages |
| a large mass of ice that covers a section of land | Glacier |
| a narrow passage of water located between Russia and Alaska, where it is believed that humans crossed a frozen land bridge from Asia to North America during the Ice Ages | Bering Starit |
| planting foods and breeding animals that are useful for humans | Domestication |
| the process of farming | Agriculture |
| the large- scale shift from hunting/gathering to farming, which allowed humans to produce large- quantities of food | Agricultural Revolution |