Question | Answer |
time before written history | Prehistory |
a group of people living together within a community | Society |
movement from one place to another | Migration |
people that have no permanent home, but move from place to place to find food | Nomad |
the study of humans and their development, including human culture and human behavior | Anthropology |
time before written history | Paleolithic period |
the application of science and engineering to create tools that improve quality of life | Technology |
early peoples who hunted animals for food and forage for fruit, grains, and berries | Hunter/Gatherer |
early relatives to modern-day humans | Hominid |
relatives or family members who lived in the past | Ancestor |
Australopithecus whose remains are more than 3 million years old | Lucy |
Homo sapiens from the Stone Ages who was discovered frozen in a glacier and is one of the oldest mummies in human history | Otzi the Iceman |
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 Age |
the total number of people within a specific area, such as a city, state, or country | Population |
time periods with consistently freezing temperatures throughout the world | Ice Age |
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 Strait |
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 |