Based on the very first chapter of Bentley's Traditions and Encounters
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| 47570855 | Prehistory | The period of time before the invention of writing | 0 | |
| 47570856 | Australopithecus | first appeared four million to one million years ago in East Africa. Walked upright on two feet and used well-developed hands. Developed stone tools and mastered fire. An example is Lucy. | 1 | |
| 47570857 | Homo Erectus | Lived 2.5-200,000 YA in East Africa. Large brain, sophisticated tools, control of fire, language skills (developed in well-coordinated hunts of large animals), migrated to Asia and Europe | 2 | |
| 47570858 | Homo Sapiens | Evolved about 200,000 YA, brain w/ large frontal regions for conscious/reflective thought, spread through Eurasia starting more than 100,000 YA; Ice Age land bridges enabled them to populate other continents; used knives, spears, bows & arrows; brought tremendous pressure on other species. Modern human. Name means "wise human". | 3 | |
| 47570859 | Examples of permanent Paleolithic settlements | Natufians in E Mediterranean, Jomon in Central Japan, and Chinook in Pacific NW area of N. America | 4 | |
| 47570860 | Neanderthals | Lived in Europe and SW Asia 100,000-35,000 YA. Their careful, deliberate burials (ex: Shanidar) = evidence of a capacity for emotion and feelings | 5 | |
| 47570861 | Cro-Magnons | First humans of the fully modern type; appeared 40,000 YA. Venus figurines showed an interest in fertility. Cave paintings of animals could show sympathetic magic | 6 | |
| 47570862 | Neolithic Era | "New Stone Age". 12,000-6,000 YA. Refined tools. Women began systematic cultivation of plants. Men began to domesticate animals | 7 | |
| 47570863 | Jericho | Oldest known Neolithic community located at a freshwater oasis N of the Dead Sea. Had mud huts and defensive walls and a population of about 2,000. | 8 | |
| 47570864 | Catal Huyuk | Neolithic village in modern-day Turkey that housed about 8,000 people | 9 | |
| 47570865 | Prehistoric craft industries include: | Pottery (= earliest), metallurgy (copper @ 1st), and textile production. | 10 | |
| 47573056 | Slash and burn cultivation | The earliest known agricultural technique | 11 | |
| 47573057 | Cities | decisively influenced the economic, political, and cultural life of large regions | 12 | |
| 48207439 | 50 | About how many people were in a Paleolithic band? | 13 |
