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history history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| time before there was writing | prehistory |
| an early ancestor of humans | hominid |
| a relative who lived in the past | Ancestor |
| an object that has been modified to help a person | tool |
| the first part of stone age; when people first used stone tools | paleolithic era |
| a community of people who share a common culture | society |
| people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive | hunters & gathers |
| to move to a new place | migrate |
| long periods of freezing weather | Ice age |
| a strip of land connecting two continentes | land bridge |
| the middle part of the stone age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex tools | mesolithic era |
| the new stone age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills | neolithic era |
| the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans | domestication |
| farming | agriculture |
| a huge stone monument | megaliths |
| Famous megalith | |
| Archaeologist who believed that bones found in East Africa in 1959 belonged to hominids | |
| To divide among a group of people | |
| Name means "southern ape" | |
| type of bone used to build early houses | mammoth |
| famous megalith | stonehenge |
| Mary Leakey | |
| to divide among a group of people | distribute |
| Name means" southern ape" | Australopithecus |