(Willis) 1 Prehistory
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| Set apart or separated from other persons or things. | Isolated
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| Adjusted oneself to something new, such as different conditions or environments. | Adapted
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| The method or skill used to create something or complete a particular task. | Technique
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| The external surroundings in which a plant or animal lives, which tend to influence its development and behavior. | Environment
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| To influence or change. | Affect
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| Person who studies and writes about the human past. | Historian
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| A scientist who studies fossils & artifacts to learn how people lived long ago. | Archaeologist
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| Any object made by people in the past that still exists today, such as weapons, tools, or other items. | Artifact
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| The trace, imprint, or remains of a once-living thing from long ago, such as a plant or animal, that has been preserved in rock. | Fossil
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| Scientist who learns about human life & culture by studying the physical characteristics and cultures of humans and their ancestors. | Anthropologist
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| A person with no permanent home who regularly moves from place to place according to the seasons in search of food, water, and grazing land. | Nomad
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| The application of tools, methods, & science to help humans perform tasks & adapt to their environment. For early humans, that meant things like stone tools & fire. | Technology
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| To tame animals and plants for human use. | Domesticate
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| A time period known as the “Old Stone Age” when humans made simple stone tools & lived nomadic lifestyles as hunters & gathers who followed animal migrations & vegetation cycles. | Paleolithic Age
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| A time period known as the “New Stone Age” when humans began to domesticate plants & animals & live life in settled communities. | Neolithic Age
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| A time period known as the Neolithic Revolution when people began the switch from a nomadic lifestyle of hunting & gathering to a settled lifestyle of systematic agriculture (farming). | Farming Revolution
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| The development of different kinds of jobs that became possible when people had a surplus of food large enough so that not everyone had to farm. | Specialization
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| The time before written records. | Prehistory
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| Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth. | Ice Ages
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| A Neolithic community in present-day Turkey. It was home to about 6,000 people who lived in simple mud-brick houses between 6,700 B.C. & 5,700 B.C. | Catal Huyuk
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| One of the earliest known Neolithic communities located in the West Bank between what are now Israel & Jordan. It dates back to about 8,000 B.C. | Jericho
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