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| The New Stone Age; prehistoric period beginning about 10,000 ya in which peoples possessed stone-based technologies and depended on domesticated crops and/or animals |
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| The Middle Stone Age of Europe, Asia & Africa beginning about 12,000 ya |
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| Term used to refer to Mesolithic cultures in the Americas |
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| A small blade of flint or similar stone, several of which were hafted together in wooden handles to make tools' widespread in the Mesolithic |
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| A Mesolithic culture living in the lands that are now Isreal, Lebanon, and western Syria, between about 10,200 and 12,500 ya |
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| Any new idea, method, or device that gains widespread acceptance in society |
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| The creation, invention, or discovery by chance of a completely new idea, method, or device |
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| The deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method, or device |
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| An evolutionary process whereby humans modify., either intentionally or unintentionally, the genetic makeup of a population of plants or animals, sometimes to the extent that members of the population are unable to survive and/ or reproduce without human assistance |
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| The cultivation of domesticated root crops such a syams and taro |
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| Cultivation of crops carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes |
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| The spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another |
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| Domestication of plants and animals by peoples with stone-based technologies, beginning about 10,000 ya and leading to radical transformations in cultural systems; sometimes referred to as the Neolithic transition |
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| The region encompassing southern Mexico and northern Central America |
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| Intensive crop cultivation, employing plows, fertilizers, and/ or irrigation |
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| Breeding and managing migratory herds of domesticated grazing animals, such as goats, sheep, cattle, llamas, or camels |
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