Study guide- Prehistory & Stone Ages

Prehistory

The time before writing was invented

history

the time period after writing was developed

Archeology

The study of the past through artifacts and fossils

Anthropology 

the study of humans, their culture, and development

artifacts

a man made object (tools, pottery)

fossil

remians of a living thing

nomad

people who move place to place following animals and seasons for food

hinter gatherers

early humans who hunted animals and gatherd wild plants

domestication

taming plants and animals and gathers wild plants

palethitic

Old stone Age when people used stone tools

Mesolithic

middle stone age a transition period with improved tools and fishing

neolithic

New ston eage when farming and permanet villages began

surplus

extra supply of food leading to population growth and trade

Thre stone age is divided into paleolithic, Mesolthicm, neolithic

Writing existed in prehistory

farming began in river vallys

Everyone became farmers after the neolithic rev

Hukmans migrated out of africa