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ssEarly Human
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values. |
| artifacts | objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools. |
| Paleolithic era | old stone age. |
| 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 Era | 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 |
| surplus | excess |
| division of labor | the economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job. |
| traditional economy | economic decisions are made 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. |
| hominid | humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright. |
| Mary Leakey | found skull fragments in East Africa that were more than 1.75 million years old. |
| Donald Johanson | found a partial Australopithecine skeleton. |
| Bronze Age | the period after the Stone Age, when people began to make items out of bronze. |