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LSB Early Humans
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | a society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values. |
| artifacts | objects in the past that people may have used, such as: coins, pottery, and tools |
| hominid | early humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright. |
| paleolithic era | old stone age lasting from around 2.5 million years ago to around 10,000 years ago |
| nomads | people who move place to place as they followed migrating animal herds |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunt, fish, and gathered wild plants, berries, nuts and other foods. |
| animism | the belief that all things in nature have spirits. |
| neolithic era | new stone age that occurred after the paleolithic era. |
| neolithic revolution | what historians refer to the shift to farming as. |
| 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 age after the stone age occurring as early as 3000 BC in some areas, but later in others |
| surplus | excess of food that farmers began to produce. |
| division of labor | the economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job. |
| traditional economy | where economic decisions are made based on the custom, tradition, or ritual. |
| artisans | skilled crafts people. |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technologies. |
| Louis Leaky | found a hominid fossil in Olduvai Gorge, located in Tanzania |
| Mary Leaky | found skull fragments in East Africa that were 1.75 million years old |