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Unit 2 Test
Beginnings of Human Society
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anthropologist | A social scientist that focuses on human cultural activity (ancient to modern, across the entire globe) |
| Census | the official process of counting the number of people in a country, state, or town, and collecting information about them. |
| Prehistoric | the time or period before recorded or written history |
| absolute (carbon) dating | he process of determining a specific date of an artifact based on physical or chemical properties of the object |
| claim | a statement about what someone thinks is true, especially when open to question |
| artifact | any object made or used by mankind |
| evidence | information used to support a claim |
| world history | the field study concerned with global processes and patterns of humanity over time |
| Stone Age | the earliest known period of human culture, marked by the creation and use of stone tools |
| cave paintings | paintings on cavewalls and ceilings,especially those dating from prehistoric times. |
| relative dating | determining the age of an object based upon surrounding fossils and geological deposits |
| archaeology | the scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts, buildings, and other remaining material evidence. |
| hominid | humans and their closest relatives. Example: Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans are all hominids. |
| bipedalism | a form of motion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs. |
| Ardipithecus Ramidus | an early human ancestor that had quadruped and biped features because of her anatomy. |
| Neanderthals | early human ancestors that were known for living in caves |
| biome | a major ecological community that corresponds to a climate and is characterized by plants that live in that are adapted to that environment |
| adaptation | the process or state of changing to fit a new environment or different conditions |
| migration | The physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. |
| Paleolithic | Age of Foragers (modern human span: about 250,000 years long) |
| foragers | another name for hunter-gatherers |
| agrarian | associated with switching to farming |
| Great Thaw | The time after the last Ice Age (roughly 15,000-12,500 years ago) |
| Neolithic Revolution | The transition from foraging to farming |
| domestication | Taming of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
| specialization | another term for division of labor |
| Catal Hoyuk | first example of a Neolithic village in modern Turkey |
| Ban Po | Neolithic settlement in East Asia |
| Chilca | Neolithic settlement in modern day Peru |
| Jericho | near Jordan River: neolithic settlement |
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