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Early Humans ENP

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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.
Mary Leakey An anthropologist who, in 1959, found 1.75 million year old skull fragments from a hominid in East Africa.
Hominid Humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright.
Donald Johanson An anthropologist that discovered a partial Australopithecine skeleton in 1974 in Ethiopia.
Louis Leakey Found a hominid fossil in Olduvai, 1959.
Paleolithic Era old Stone Age 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago.
Nomads Moving from place to place following migrating animals.
Hunter-gatherers Hunting, fishing, gathering wild plants, berries, and other foods.
Animism The belief that all things in nature have spirits.
Neolithic Era New Stone Age 8,000 BC to 3,000 BC
Neolithic Revolution The radical shift to farming.
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 livestock on which they depended on for foods and other items.
Megaliths Huge stones for burial or spiritual purposes.
Bronze Age Starting around 3,000 BC, the era that bronze began to be utilized.
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Division of Labor The economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task/job.
Traditional Economy Where economic decisions are 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.
Homo Sapiens Modern Humans (means "wise man")
Homo Erectus The first hominid to control fire.
Homo Habilis ("Handy Man") One of the more humanlike hominids.
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