Neolithic Era Vocab

Neolithic Era/Revolution

• The last period of the Stone Age when human beings began to develop agriculture and use stone tools and weapons made from shaped and polished stone. People lived in one place and began to specialize.

Agriculture

• Agriculture: The raising of crops and animals for human use.

Subsistence Agriculture

• Growing only enough crops and having enough livestock for your immediate family.

• Subsistence farmers are not growing extra food to sell or trade.

Domestication

• To train plants and animals to be useful to people.

Livestock

• Animals kept for their use to humans.

Specialization

• To have different types of jobs which people become skilled in.

Ex.) Architect, Farmer, Warrior, Carpenter.

Stone Age

• From 70,000 BC- 4,000 BC. Humans began showing first signs of civilization, first in the Paleolithic Era when humans began to use stone and bone tools & then in the Neolithic when humans began to use agriculture.