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Prehistory
History SOL review
Definition | Term |
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Period of time before written history | Prehistory |
Study of past people and cultures through material remains | Archeology |
An object made by and used in the past | Artifact |
Animal or plant remains that have been turned to stone over time | Fossil |
Scientific method used to tell the age of an artifact by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon in it | Carbon-14 dating |
The group of hominids to which modern humans belong | Homo sapiens |
2 Million BC to 10,000 BC | Paleolithic Era |
paintings usually of animals, made by Paleolithic people; some were found in Lascaux, France | Cave art |
people who move from place to place to find food | Nomads |
people who live by hunting and gathering food, typically nomadic | Hunter-gatherer |
a.k.a. the New Stone Age; began about 10,000 BC | Neolithic age |
raise plants and animals in a controlled way that makes them suitable for human use | Domesticate |
the raising of crops for food; signifies the beginning of the Neolithic Age | Agriculture |
The time when human beings first farmed plants and domesticated animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering | Agricultural revolution |
the continent where humans first originated | Africa |
the earth's line of zero degrees longitude; lines measure east to west | Prime meridian |
the earth's line of zero degrees latitude; lines measure north to south | Equator |
Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, Place (MR. HELP) | Five themes of geography |
lines that run East to West; measure North to South; an example the Tropic of Cancer | Latitude |
lines that run North to South; Measures East to West. Example: Prime Meridian | Longitude |
human traits: lived in clans; created cave art; made simple stone/bone/wood tools; used fire; nomadic, oral language. | Paleolithic humans |
human traits: lived in permanent settlements; created pottery; advanced tools; domesticated animals & domesticated plants (agriculture/farming) & weaving skills. | Neolithic humans |
an archaeological site in England that was begun during the Neolithic Age and completed during the Bronze Age | Stonehenge |
Period after the Copper Age, but prior to the Iron Age. | Bronze age |
Large early Neolithic site in southern Anatolia (modern day Turkey) on Asia Minor. | Catalhoyuk |
Two cities in the Fertile Crescent that have been excavated by archaeologists because of their Bronze Age development. | Aleppo and Jericho |
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another. | cultural diffusion |
Larger brain, smaller face | Homo habilis |
Oldest known species to hold a modern humans body | Homo erectus |
Species that lived in Eurasia, Cave men | Neandrathal |
First modern humans to settle in Europe | Cro-magnon |
Tanzania, found oldest human remains | Olduval gorge |
a scientist who studies past peoples and cultures by excavating and examining material remains | Archaeologists |
study the culture and characteristics of living or past civilizations throughout the world. | Anthropologists |
a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record. | Paleontologist |
Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools in Olduval gorge | Louis and Mary Leakey |