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Early Humans717
Voc. For Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | refers to 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 | refers to humans and early human-like beings that walked upright |
| Paleolithic Era | is the Old Stone Age. IT lasted from 2.5 millions years ago to around 10,000 years ago |
| nomads | moving from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds |
| Hunter-gatherers | hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants, berries, nuts, and other foods |
| animism | the belief that all things in nature have spirits |
| Neolithic Ear | 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 of livestock on which they depended for food and other items |
| megaliths | huge stones for burial or spiritual |
| Bronze Age | age that came after the Stone Age |
| division of labor | economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in particular task or job |
| traditional economy | economic decisions are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual |
| civilization | is a complex and organized society |
| Artisans | skilled crafts people |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another |
| surplus | excess of something |
| Neolithic Revolution | shift to farming |
| Mary Leakey | found skull fragments in East Africa that were more than 1.75 million years old |