Question | Answer |
A scientist who examines bones, tool structures and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures. | Archeologist |
An institution in Washington D.C founded in 1846. | Smithsonian Institution |
A native Caucasia | Caucasian |
To move from one place to settle in another area. | Migrate |
A person who has no single settled home. | Nomad |
To tame animals and raise them to be used by humans. | Domesticate |
Land or soil that contains substances plants need in order to grow well. | Fertile |
An object that fires spears. | Atlatl(spear thrower) |
Events that occurred at the period of time before writing was invented. | Prehistory |
The written and other recorded events of people | History |
Stories passed down by generations of word of mouth. | Oral Tradition |
The development of agriculture around 10,000 B.C by making thing out of stone. | Neolithic |
The art or study of argumentation and formal debate. | Forensics |
A projectile point used to hunt big game. | Clovis |
Random changes in the frequency of alleles in the gene pool, usually in small populations. | Genetic Drift |
The branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms. | Morphology |
Native American Graves Preservation and Repratation act. | N.A.G.P.R.A |
A dating meothod that uses the naturaly occuring radiostope carbon-14 to determine the age of bonesand materials up to 60000 years. | Radio Carbon-dating |
A net work of cannals to supply a land with water rrom another place. | Irrigation |
Having more then what is needed. | Surplus |
Workers who are especialy skilled in making items. | Artisan |
A society that has cities a central government and workers. | Civilization |
A group or class that is made up of people with similar backrounds wealth and ways of living. | Social Class |
The name for the skelital remains of a prehistoric man found on the bank of the columbia river in kenowick Washington USA on july 28 1996. The remains were radio cabon-dated to 9400 years old. | Kenowick Man |
An ancient mass of ice that moves over land. | Glaicier |
Was a land bridge around 1000 miles north to south as its greatest extent that joined present day Alaska and Eastern Siberia at various times during the pieistocene ice ages. | Bering land Bridge |
The study of the origins and social relationships of human beings | Antrophology |
A spicies of early humans that disapered at the end of the Paleolithic period. | Neandrathals |
They were the earliest form of modern day humans.An ealy group of homo sapiens that lived about 40000 years ago in what is now Euope. | Cro-Magnons |
Primate human ancestor | homanid |
A hard sedimentary rock that could be shaped into spear points weopons and tools by early humans during the stone age. | Flint |
A reddish brown metal used by early humans and civilizations before the bronze age to make tools and weopons. | Copper |
A long period of time. | Era or Epoch |
Ten years. | Decade |
Twenty years. | Score |
One hundred years. | Centry |
One thousand years. | Millenium |
An event, person, invention or idea that changed human history from that point on. | Paradign Shift |