• The long period before the invention of writing

• Prehistory
• Details of the past such as clothing, coins, and art work
• artifacts
• The study of the development of people and their societies
• anthropology
• Or way of life, from past to present
• Culture
• A specialized branch of anthropology, the study of the pas cultures
through remains
• Archaeology
• To show that early hominids had developed with skills and tolls to
survive
• Technology
• Old stone age
• Paleolithic Period
• New stone age
• Neolithic Period
• The transition from nomadic life to settled farming brought about
such dramatic changes in way of life
• Neolithic Revolution
• Farmers were the first to do that to plants and animals
• Domesticate
• Highly organized and complex societies developed near major rivers
• Civilization
• Believing in many gods
• Polytheistic
• Migration, as well as trade and warfare led to what
• Cultural diffusion
• Rulers acquired more territory this brought about the development of
what and later the rise of the first what
• City states, and empire
• The basic features of civilization
• Cities
• Government
• Complex Religions
• Job specialization
• Social Classes
• Arts and Architecture
• Public works
• Writing
• Anthropologist who searched for clues in East Africa. There they
found many ancient stone tools.
• Mary and Louis Leakey
• Anthropologist who found pieces of a hominid skeleton in Ethiopia.
• Donald Johanson
• What was the name of the 3 million year old hominid
• Lucy