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AH - Unit 2
The Stone Age
Term | Definition |
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Prehistory | the time before there was writing |
Ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
Hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
Paleolithic Era | the first part of the Stone Age; when people first used stone tools |
Tool | an object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
Hunter-Gatherer | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive |
Mesolithic Era | the middle part of the Stone Age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex tools |
Land Bridge | a strip of land connecting two continents |
Ice Age | long periods of freezing weather |
Migrate | to move to a new place |
Domestication | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
Neolithic Era | the New Stone Age; when people learned to make fire and tools like saws and drills |
Agriculture | Farming |
Megalith | huge stone monument |