Question | Answer |
Stone Age | TIME PERIOD, stone for tools and weapons. |
Mesolithic age | 10,000 B.C. - 6,000 B.C.(Middle Stone Age)
transitioning period from old to new stone age, hunter-gatherer groups into agricultural groups, communication, language developing among Homo Sapien Sapiens |
Hunter Gatherers | PEOPLE,moved around, hunted wild animals and gathered wild plants (e.g. berries) for food.
Paleolitic Age: thriving
Mesolithic Age: living
Neolithic Age: in minority |
Nomadic | moved to different locations to find food.
NO FIXED ABODE |
Cooking Spit | COOKING METHOD, rod pushed through meat in order to hold and turn it while it is roasted over an open fire |
Flint stones | STONE TYPE used for tools and weapons because EASILY SHARPENED |
Scrapers | STONES used to clean skin. |
Mount Sandel,Co. Derry | evidence of a mesolithic site. |
Bone Needles | needles made out of bone.
sewing animal skins together. |
Post-Holes | darker patches in the soil where saplings were struck into the ground. |
Harpoon | SPEAR with a barbed or jagged top used for fishing. |
Clothes | were made out of animal skins. |
Mesolithic ("Middle Stone Age") | 10,000-8,000 B.C.E. |
Paleolithic ("Old StoneAge") | early,longest period of Stone Age;
2.5 million B.C. to around 10,000 B.C.
little human development.
human beings developing:Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, Homo Sapien Sapiens.
simple tools for hunting, hunter-gatherers, migration |
Neolithic ("New Stone Age") | 8,000 B.C. - 3,000 B.C.
Beginning of Agriculture and first civilizations, villages, and basic cities,
MAJOR INVENTIONS- plow, basic irrigation, and wheel
late period of the Stone Age, when humans made great improvements in technology |
Agricultural Revolutionpeople who move around following wild animals to hunt and wild plants to eat | TIME, when early people transitioned from being hunter-gatherers to farmers |
domesticate | to raise and tend (a plant or an animal) to be of use to humans |
technology | consists of all the ways in which people apply knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs |
migration | act of moving from one place to settle in another |
nomads | people who move from place to place |
land bridge | a strip of land connecting two land masses |
Stone Age | A period of time when humans PRIMARILY relied upon STONE tools |
Agriculture | Producing crops and raising livestock, farming |