Human Origins ch1 Word Scramble
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Culture | Refers to A society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values. |
Artifacts | Objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools. |
Mary Leaky | Found skull fragments in East Africa that were more than 1.75 million years old. |
Hominid | Refers to humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright. |
Donald Johanson | Found a partial Australopithecine skeleton. |
Louis Leaky | Found a hominid fossil in Olduvai Gorge, located in Tanzania. |
Paleolithic Period | A period where people mainly made tools from stone. |
Nomads | Someone who moves from place to place as they follow migrating animals. |
Hunter-Gatherers | Someone who hunts, fishes, and gathers wild plants, berries, nuts, and other foods. |
Animism | The belief that all things in nature have spirits. |
Neolithic Era | The era where more sophisticated tools were made. |
Domestication | The selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans. |
Pastoralists | People who ranged over wide areas and kept herds of livestock on which they depended for food and other items. |
Megaliths | Huge stones, for burial or spiritual purposes. |
Bronze Age | The era where people started to make items from Bronze. |
Division Of Labor | The economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job. |
Artisans | Skilled craftspeople who devoted their time to crafts such as basketry, carpentry, metalwork, or pottery |
Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another. |
Neolithic Revolution | The shift to farming. |
Traditional Economy | Economic decisions made based on customs, traditions, and rituals. |
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