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Unit 2 Lesson 2-3
World History: Prehistory and Early Humans
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| historian | social scientist who specializes in events and accounts (and the time in between) |
| archaeologist | social scientist who specializes in prehistoric artifacts and fossils |
| anthropologist | social scientist who specializes in cultural traits (some study prehistory, while others look for modern clues) |
| Prehistoric | Any time before there was recorded history |
| Stone Age | Time period focused on why hominids used stone tools for the first time |
| absolute dating | A way to determine how old something is (by measuring the amount of carbon) |
| relative dating | A way to determine how old something is based on the rocks and other fossils found around an artifact (deeper layers: the assumption is that the object is older, but there are some exceptions) |
| topographic | a map that shows elevation (usually with contour lines) |
| hominid | humans and their closest relatives |
| flutings | finger shaped marks found in the clay of Chauvet Cave in France |
| women and children | based on finger size, these are the people that made the marks in the Chauvet Cave in France |
| Homo Neandertalensis | AKA Neanderthal, this large-brained individual came before modern Homo Sapiens |
| Homo Sapiens | Modern man |
| Homo Erectus | Human ancestor to walk upright, and made a hand axe on his/her way out of Africa |
| bipedal | walking upright on two feet |
| Ardipithecus Ramidus | AKA Ardi early human ancestor that used all 4 limbs in the trees, and 2 feet on the ground (4.4 million years ago) |
| human evolution | the evidence-based, scientific understanding of the origin and development of humanity |
| 200,000 years ago | This is when modern humans were in existence |
| cave paintings | could be an early form of written language: it is hard to tell if these were used to tell stories, teach about religion, make maps, art, or just to doodle |
| Ethiopia (in Africa) | Where Ardi's fragile skeleton was found |
| claim | a theory that a historian, archaeologist, or anthropologist might have about the evidence they have to look at |
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