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Early Humans ch1
key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | refers to a society's knowledge, art, belief's,customs, and values. |
| Artifacts | objects that people in the past used such as coins, pottery, and tools. |
| paleolithic era | Known as the OLD STONE AGE. |
| nomads | they moved from place to place following animal herds. |
| hunter-gatherers | hunting, fishing, gathering berries, plants, nuts and other foods. |
| neolithic era | known as the new stone age. |
| neolithic revolution | shift farming.. it changed the way people lived |
| domestication | the selective growing or breeding of plants or animals. |
| pastoralists | people who ranged over wide areas and kept herds of livestock on witch they depended for food and other items |
| megaliths | huge stones for burial or spiritual purposes. |
| Bronze age | as people began to make items from bronze, it became the bronze age, 3000BC |
| surplus | excess of food. |
| division of labor | when a worker specializes in a particular task or job. |
| traditional economy | economic decisions are made based on custom, traditional, ritual. |
| civilization | complex and organized society. |
| Artisans | skilled crafts people devoted their time to crafts, such as, basketry, carpentry, metalwork, or pottery. |
| Cultural diffusion | the spread of beliefs, ideas, customs, and technology. |
| Hominid | early human like being |
| animism | the beliefs that things in nature have spirits |
| louis leaky | the one to find a hominids fossil. |