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Neolithic Era

New Stone Age - people's shift from food gathering to food producing by domesticating plants and animals. During this era, people also used advanced tools, made pottery, and developed weaving skills

Domestication

hunter-gatherer

early people who lived by hunting animals and gathering plants for food

food

homosapien

The human species that emerged in east Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago and migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas.

human

Domestication

taming of animals such as cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs

animals

Migration

The movement from one place to another

Moving

Nomads

People who migrated in search of food, water, and shelter

Migrating

Archaeologist

Someone who studies past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts.

Fossils and artifacts

Carbon Dating

A scientific test used to analyze an artifact or fossil.

Science

Stonehenge

An example of an archaeological site composed of the assembly of megaliths (large stones) in southern England that was begun during the Neolithic Age and completed during the Bronze Age.

Big rocks

Fertile Crescent

The semicircle region that stretches from the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, around the Syrian Desert, north of Arabia to the Persian Gulf the civilizations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin began.

Civilizations began

Çatalhöyük

An example of a Neolithic settlement currently under excavation in Anatolia.

Neolithic

Civilization

A complex culture which can produce a surplus of food, establish large towns with a government, and has people who perform different jobs.

culture