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early humans
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Historian | an expert in or student of history |
| Anthropologist | person who studies the origin and development of humans |
| Fossil | an impression in rock left he ways knowledge, tools, inventions are applied to meet needs by a plant/animal from an earlier time |
| Archaeologist | person who studies human history through remains |
| Technology | the ways knowledge, tools, inventions are applied to meet needs |
| Artifact | something that is made by humans |
| Neolithic | new Stone Age; agriculture, villages, cut and polished stone tools |
| Nomad | people who move from place to place |
| Agriculture | farming and raising animals |
| Paleolithic | old Stone Age; hunter-gatherer, nomads, crude tools |
| Hunter | hunted animals, followed food source |
| Gatherer | gathered plants, moved when food ran out |
| Specialization | focus on a smaller idea or fewer things for better output |
| Domesticate | to tame or grow |
| Astronomer | scientist who look at stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies, as well as many other celestial objects. |