Vocabulary about Prehistory

• archaeological site (n): a place where people lived in the past and where there are material remains. 
• burial (n): the ceremony of putting a dead body in the ground. 

Burial

• cave art (n): prehistoric paintings found on the walls and ceilings of caves. 
• dolmen (n): a burial chamber made of large standing stones. 
• hominid (n): a member of the family of mammals that includes humans and their primate ancestors. 
• Homo sapien (n): the species of modern humans. 
• hunter-gatherer (n): a prehistoric person who lived by hunting animals and gathering fruit and nuts. 

Gathering

• hunting (n): the activity of catching and killing wild animals for food. 
• livestock (n.): domesticated animals and birds, such as sheep or chickens, kept for food or trade. 
• megalith (n): a large standing stone, or group of stones, placed by Prehistoric people as a monument. 
• metalworking (n): the process of making objects out of metal. 
• nomad (n): a member of a group of people with no permanent home, who travel from place to place looking for new sources of food or materia Is. 
• polishing (n): the process of making the surface of hard materials smooth by rubbing. 

  

  Polishing stone

• pottery (n): clay objects, such as pots and cups, used for storing or cooking food.

  

  Neolithic pottery

   
• predator (n): an animal (or person) who hunts, kills and eats other animals. 
• Prehistory (n): the time before the invention of writing. 
• settlement (n): a small group of houses. 

  

  Neolithic settlement

• smelting (n): the process of using fire to extract metal from rock. 

  

  Smelting metal

• stone circle (n): a group of upright stones and horizontal slabs arranged in a circle. 
• tomb (n): where someone is buried, either in the ground or in a chamber. 
• tool (n): an object made or used to perform a specific task.