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Early Humans NSF
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| atrifacts | objects that people in the past made or used |
| culture | refers to a society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs and values |
| Paleolithic Era | old stone age |
| nomads | moving place to place following migrating animal herds |
| hunter-gathers | hunt, fish and gather wild plants, berries, and other nuts |
| animism | the belief all things have spirits |
| Neolithic Era | New Stone Age |
| domestication | the selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
| Neolithic Revolution | farming |
| megaliths | huge stone, for burial or spiritual purposes |
| pastoralists | people who ranged over wide areas and kept herds of livestock on which they depended for food and other items |
| Bronze Age | time when people began to make items from bronze |
| civilization | complexed and organized society |
| Artisans | skilled crafts people, devoted their time to crafts such as basketry, carpentry, metalwork, or pottery |
| cultural diffusion | spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, skills, and technologies |
| surplus | excess, of food |
| division of labor | The economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a pasticular task or job |
| traditional economy | economic decisions are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual |
| hominid | humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright |
| Mary Leaky | an anthropologist |
| Donald Johnson | an anthropologist |
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