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bt early humans
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | 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 |
| hominid | an early humanlike being |
| Paleolithic Era | also called the Old Stone Age |
| nomads | moving from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunt, fish, and gather wild plants, berries, nuts, and other foods |
| Neolithic Era | also called the New Stone Age |
| 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 or livestock on which they depended for food and other items |
| megaliths | huge stones |
| Bronze Age | people began to make items from bronze |
| surplus | excess, large amount |
| division of labor | the economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
| traditional economy | economic decisions are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual |
| civilization | a complex and organized society |
| artisans | skilled craftspeople |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another |
| Donald Johanson | found a partial Australopithecine skeleton |
| Mary Leakey | found skull fragments in East Africa that were more than 1.75 million years old |
| Neolithic Revolution | the shift to farming |
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