Name: _____________________________ Date: ______________

Social Studies Period: _____________

Chapter 2: The Stone Ages and Early Cultures Vocabulary Matching

_______1. Prehistory

_______2. Hominid

_______3. Tool

_______4. Technology

_______5. Domestication

_______6. Agriculture

_______7. Hunter-Gatherers

_______8. Land Bridge

_______9. Ice Ages

_______10. Radio-Carbon 14 Dating

_______11. Society

_______12. Paleolithic Era

_______13. Neolithic Era

_______14. Australopithecus

_______15. Homo habilis

_______16. Homo erectus

_______17. Homo sapiens

_______18. Lucy

_______19. Otzi

_______20. Migrate

a. Long periods of freezing weather

b. People producing their own food through farming

c. A community of people who share a common culture

d. Time before there was writing

e. People move to new places

f. Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person

accomplish a task

g. The Iceman discovered in the snowy Alps of Italy in 1991

h. The New Stone Age

i. The process of changing/training plants or animals to make

them more useful to humans

j. “Wise Man”

k. An early ancestor of humans

l. The Old Stone Age

m. “Handy Man”

n. People who hunt animals and gather wild plants , seeds,

fruits, and nuts to survive

o. “Southern Ape”

p. Remains of an early ancestor of humans who lived over 3

million years ago

q. “Upright Man”

r. A strip of land connecting two continents that allowed Stone

Age people to move around the world

s. Something (like a tool) that makes life easier for humans

t. A way of determining the age of certain archeological artifacts

of a biological origin up to about 50,000 years old