The Stone Age - Introductory

Travel back to prehistoric times by learning this list of Stone Age vocabulary words. Explore early civilizations, the development of agriculture, and Stone Age tools. You'll also review archaeological terms, such as excavation, artifact, and and fossil.
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  1. agriculture
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  2. archaeologist
    an anthropologist who studies prehistoric culture
  3. archaeology
    the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people
  4. artifact
    a man-made object
  5. blade
    the flat part of a tool or weapon that has a cutting edge
  6. civilization
    a society in an advanced state of social development
  7. climate
    the weather in some location averaged over a period of time
  8. cutter
    a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
  9. deity
    a supernatural being worshipped as controlling the world
  10. domesticate
    make fit for cultivation and service to humans
  11. drought
    a shortage of rainfall
  12. excavation
    the site of an archeological exploration
  13. figurine
    a small carved or molded figure
  14. floodplain
    a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding
  15. fossil
    the remains of a plant or animal from a past geological age
  16. fresco
    a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
  17. goddess
    a female deity
  18. grain
    foodstuff prepared from the starch of cereal grasses
  19. harvest
    the gathering of a ripened crop
  20. hunter-gatherer
    a member of a hunting and gathering society
  21. invention
    the act of making something new
  22. mammoth
    extinct elephant widely distributed in the Pleistocene
  23. migrate
    move from one country or region to another and settle there
  24. nomad
    a member of a people who have no permanent home
  25. pottery
    objects made from clay and baked in a kiln
  26. prehistoric
    belonging to or existing before recorded times
  27. prey
    animal hunted or caught for food
  28. saber-toothed tiger
    any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
  29. scarce
    deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
  30. scraper
    any of various hand tools for scraping
  31. settlement
    a community of people smaller than a town
  32. shelter
    a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
  33. shrine
    a place of worship associated with something sacred
  34. spear
    a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
  35. Stone Age
    (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements
  36. surplus
    a quantity much larger than is needed
  37. technology
    the practical application of science to commerce or industry
  38. tool
    an implement used to perform a task or job
  39. trade
    the commercial exchange of goods and services
  40. woolly mammoth
    very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere
Created on Thu Jan 12 11:33:59 EST 2017 (updated Mon Apr 03 16:07:47 EDT 2017)

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