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adc Early Humans
Vocabulary about early humans
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | refers to a society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values. |
| Artifacts | objects that people in the past made or used. |
| Paleolithic Era | The old stone age. |
| Nomads | People that move from place to place. |
| Neolithic Era | The new stone age. |
| Neolithic Revoloution | The development of agriculture and the shift to farming. |
| Domestication | The selective growing or breeding of animals or plants to make them more useful for 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 purposes. |
| Surplus | an excess of food or other items |
| Traditional economy | Where economic descisons are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual. |
| division of labor | An economic arrangement where each worker specializes in a particular task or job. |
| Civilization | A complex and organized society. |
| The Bronze Age. | When people began to make items out of bronze. |
| Artisans | Skilled Craftspeople. |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another. |
| animism | A belief that all thinigs in nature have a spirit. |
| Hunter- Gatherers | People who hunt and gather from nature to survive. |
| hominid | Humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright. |
| Domestic tasks | cooking, and making crafts. |