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Chapter 1pj

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Culture refers to a society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values.
Artifacts are objects that people in the past made or 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 ages when weapons and tools started to be made of bronze
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
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