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history history
Question | Answer |
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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 |