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MC Early Humans
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | a group's knowledge, belief's, values,and customs |
| Artifacts | objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools |
| Mary Leaky | (anthropologist) found skull fragments in East Africa that were more than 1.75 million years old |
| Hominid | an early humanlike creature that is believed to be the ancestor of humans |
| Donald Johanson | (anthropologist) found a partial Australopithecine skeleton in Ethiopia |
| Louis Leaky | (anthrapologist) found a hominid fossil in Olduvai Gorge, located in Tanzania |
| Paleolithic Era | (old stone age) a prehistoric period that lasted from about 2.5 million years ago to about 8,500 BC |
| Nomads | people who move from place to place in search of food and water |
| Hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs |
| Animism | the belief that all things in nature have spirits |
| Neolithic Era | (new stone age) the time period after the paleolithic era, marked by the use of tools |
| Neolithic Revolution | a period in human history marked by the introduction of agriculture and a shift from food gathering to food production |
| Domestication | taming animals and adapting crops for human use |
| Artisians | skilled craftspeople who make goods, such as pottery or baskets, by hand |
| Megaliths | huge stones used for burials or religious purposes |
| Bronze Age | the period after the new stone age, when people began to make items out of bronze |
| Surplus | excess |
| Division of Labor | when certain people do a specific task or type of work |
| Traditional Economy | an economic system in which economic decisions are made based on customs, beliefs, religion, and habitats |
| Civilization | a complex, organized society that has advanced cities, a government, religion, record keeping and writing, job specialization, social classes, and art and architecture |