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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | refers to society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values. |
| Artifacts | objects that people in the past made or used as coin, pottery, and tools. |
| Paleotlithic | Era or old stone age. Lasted from around 2.5 million years ago to around 10,000 years ago. |
| Nomads | people moving from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds. |
| Hunter- Gathers | hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants, berries,nuts, and other foods. |
| Animism | The belief that all things in nature have spirits. |
| Neolithic Era | The Paleolithic Era gave way to a period that scientists call or New stone age.In some places such as Southwest Asia is began early as 8000 B.C and lasted until 3000 B.C |
| Domestication | The selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans. |
| Neolothic Revolution | refers to the shift to farming . |
| Pastoralists | people who ranged over wide areas and kept herd so livestock on which they depended for food and other items. |
| Megaliths | huge stone, for burial or spiritual purposes. |
| Bronze Age | occurred as early as 3000 BC in some areas, but much later in others. |
| Surplus | excess , of food. Food , villages could support larger populations. |
| Division of labor | 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 | Complex and organization society. |
| Artisans | skilled or craftspeople, devoted their time to crafts such as basketry, carpentry, metalwork or pottery. |
| Cultural diffusion | spread of ideas, beliefs, customs and technology from one culture to another. |
| Donald Johanson | An anthropologist, found a partial Australopithecine skeleton, he describes his find. |
| Mary Leakey | found skull fragments in East Africa that w ere more than 1.75 millions years old. |
| Louis Leakey | found a hominid fossil in Olduvai. |