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Prehistory-HAWH
Prehistory Mr. Metz, Chapter 1 & 2
Question | Answer |
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paleoanthropologist | Studies the earliest humans and the setting in which they lived |
archaeology | The study of origins and development of people and their societies |
myth | An interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep moral message |
cave art | Representation of animals and decorations in a rocky place found throughout the world. Some dates to 25,000 years old. |
paleolithic | Refers to the Old Stone Age where people were hunters and gatherers and moved from place to place |
neolithic | Refers to the New Stone Age where people learned to farm, thus created permanent settlements |
agricultural village | The first permanent farming settlements |
fertile crescent | Area of land near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and the Mediterranean Sea. This first agricultural villages were found here |
5 Themes of Geography | movement, place, region. location, human-environment interaction |
B.C.E. | Before the Common Era |
C.E. | Common Era |
B.P. | Before the Present |