Unit 1 Prehistory/geography

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Prehistory

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The long period before writing was invented. Historians use unwritten records such as buildings, pottery, and bones, to unravel the mysteries of this time period.

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Stone Age

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The prehistoric period of time when people used simple stone tools. This time period is often divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolothic and Neolithic eras.

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Paleolithic Era

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The Old Stone Age, beginning as early as 500,000 BCE and lasting until 10,000 BCE. People lived in a nomadic fashion by fishing, hunting, and gathering plants that grew wild. They lived in family groups of about 30 people, lived in caves and lean-tos and learned to control fire. They developed spoken languages and made simple tools such as hand axes and choppers and later needles, harpoons, fish-hooks, and arrow-heads.

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Neolithic Era

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The New Stone Age, beginning between 10,000 BCE and 3500 BCE as people began to start settling (civilizations), starting farming and herding lifestyles.

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Mesolithic Era

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Nomad

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People who moved with and in search of food. People of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic time period lived in this fashion.

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Artifacts

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Objects left by early people including anything shaped by human beings, such as tools, pottery, and weapons.

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Archeologist

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Scientists who find and analyze objects (artifacts) left by early people to try and determine what life was like for them.

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Anthropologist

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Scientists who use artifacts and bone fragments to study the ways people organize societies.

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Civilization

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The development of settlements including the 5 characteristics of complex institutions(religion & government), surplus food, division of labor(specialized skills & occupations), writing(record keeping) and a calendar.