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KS Chapter 2 Terms
Question | Answer |
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absolute dating | the determination of the age of an object based on measurable physical or chemical qualities or associations with written records |
adaptation | change in behavior in response to new or modified surroundings |
artifact | something made or used by people from the past |
barter | to trade one thing for another without the exhange of money |
celestial | heavenly |
currency | money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange |
domesticate | to train or adapt to be of use to humans |
infer | imply |
migration | the act of moving from one land or country to settle in another place |
nomadic | having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land |
oral tradition | the spoken preservation, from one generation to the next, of a people's cultural history and ancestry, often by a storyteller in narrative form |
parfleche | an article, like a bag, made from an untanned animal hide |
relative dating | in archaeology, the arrangement of artifacts or events in a sequence relative to one another |
travois | a frame hung between trailing poles and pulled by a dog or horse |