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early humans
vocab
Term | Definition |
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Historian | an expert in or student of history |
Anthropologist | person who studies the origin and development of humans |
Fossil | an impression in rock left he ways knowledge, tools, inventions are applied to meet needs by a plant/animal from an earlier time |
Archaeologist | person who studies human history through remains |
Technology | the ways knowledge, tools, inventions are applied to meet needs |
Artifact | something that is made by humans |
Neolithic | new Stone Age; agriculture, villages, cut and polished stone tools |
Nomad | people who move from place to place |
Agriculture | farming and raising animals |
Paleolithic | old Stone Age; hunter-gatherer, nomads, crude tools |
Hunter | hunted animals, followed food source |
Gatherer | gathered plants, moved when food ran out |
Specialization | focus on a smaller idea or fewer things for better output |
Domesticate | to tame or grow |
Astronomer | scientist who look at stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies, as well as many other celestial objects. |