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| Period of the human past before writing was invented |
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| the story of the human past |
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| Development that separates prehistory from recorded history |
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| Folktales that explain the past |
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| the way of life of a people |
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| the number of people who live in a given area |
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| period when the northern continents were buried under ice and snow |
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| Before the birth of Christ |
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| Anno Domini, the years after the birth of Christ |
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| First period of human history |
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| Second Period of Human history |
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| Third period of human history |
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| Continent where the earliest human-like remains have been found |
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| Prehistoric people who closely resemble modern humans |
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| Characteristic that allowed humans to use their hands freely |
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| Skill that allowed humans to pass along knowledge |
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| Earliest ways of getting food |
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| Earliest clothing material |
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| Resource used both for cooking and as a weapon |
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| Huge woolly creature, often hunted |
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| Person who studies the human past |
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| information organized for analysis |
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| scientist who studies the earth |
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| Scientists who studies the remains of ancient peoples and civilizations. |
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| Society centered around cities |
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| any object made by early people |
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| huge slowly moving masses of ice and snow |
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| Years in between glacial times |
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| Exceptionally long period of time |
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| Period of time figured from some particular date |
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| What was the paleolithic age |
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| Characteristic that allowed humans to store and use more information than animals |
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| One of the facial characteristics that made a neanderthal different from a Cro-Magnon |
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| sloping forhead, thic eyebrow ridges, heavy jaw large nose, receding chin |
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| How Neanderthals disposed of their dead |
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| Neolithic ways of securing food |
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| New Neolithic living arrangement |
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| Neolithic invention used for cooking and food storage |
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| Neolithic clothing material |
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| Historian devoted to a single branch of study or research |
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| Digging into the earth to find ancient remains |
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| TO decode an ancient language |
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| Careful hunting for facts or evidence |
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| Idea about how something happened |
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| These were formerly used to date archaeological sites |
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| Radioactive element used to date ancient objects |
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| Man who developed a way to date ancient objects using a radioactive element |
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| Prehistoric dweller on a Southeast Asian island |
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| Prehistoric dweller of China |
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| When homo sapiens emerged |
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| when Cro-Magnon people emerged |
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| The color of this depended on the climate where people lived |
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| Neolithic material that began to replace stone |
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| Neolithic invention that was the basis of transportation |
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| Neolithic invention that was a machine to weave cloth |
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| material mixed with clay to produce pottery |
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| Hardened lava from volcanoes used as mirrors |
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| To determine how old a historical find is |
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| Scientist who studies the origin and development of human beings |
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| Term for father-related society |
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| Term for mother-related society |
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| Archaeologists term for the remains of ancient households |
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| The three periods of the Stone Age |
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| the shift from food hunting to food producing |
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| when the Neolithic Age began |
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| years of the Paleolithic age |
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| People who have lived in Australia since prehistoric times |
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| River in western Germany where Neanderthal remains were first found |
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| Earliest human like creature |
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| Possible age of earliest humanlike remains |
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| Site of oldest known village |
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| Method of shaping stone in the old stone age |
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| Method of shaping stone in the New Stone Age |
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| Neanderthal religious belief about death |
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