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SS World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Before history; the events in the period of time before writing was invented. | Prehistory |
| To relocate; to move from one place to settle in another area. | migrate |
| A person who has no singel, settled home; follows seasonal food sources. | nomad |
| Stories passed down from generations by word of mouth. | oral tradition |
| The early part of the Stone Age during wich humans learned to hunt in groups, learned how to make fire ,and became nomads. | Old Stone Age |
| A peroid of time in which humans made weapons and tools mainly of stone;the earlyest know time of human culture. | Stone Age |
| New Stone Age. | Neolithic |
| The writen and other recorded records of humans; the study of man over time. | history |
| To tame animals and raise them to be used by humans for food, labor and trasportation. | domesticate |
| A scientist who examines bones, tools, structures, and other artifacts to learn about peoples and cultures from the past. | archaeologist |
| The study of man's spatial relationship to the enviroment. The study of Earths surface and the processes that shape(d) it, the connections between places, resources, and living things. | geography |
| The worlds largest museum complex and research organazaion composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. Located on the National Mall in Washington, DC. | Smithsonian Institution |
| Native American graves protection & Repatriation Act- According to NAGPRA, if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a native American tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe can claim them. | N.A.G.P.R.A. |
| The name for the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, USA on July 28, 1996. The remains were radio-carbon dated to 9,400 years old. | Kennewick Man |
| Important evolutionary process that leads to changes in gene variation over time. (may explain why more recent Native American skeletons don't look like earlier skeltons) | Genetic drift |
| Physical characteristics or traits of a human skull such as height, width of the cheek bones, shape of the eye sockets and chin, etc. | Morphology |
| An ancient mass of ice that moves over land | Glacier |
| Is a dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 to determine the age of bones and materials up to about 60,000 years | Radio-carbon dating |
| A prehistoric culture that appears about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last glaciel period, known for the sharp, flint speared points adapted to the hunting of large mammals, named after the site of Clovis, NM. | Clovis |
| Was a land brige roughly 1,000 miles north to south at it's greatest extent, which joined present day Alsaska and eastern Siberia at varios times during the Pleistocene ice ages. | Bering land bridge |
| Scientific tests or techniques used in the investagation of crimes and archealogical finds. | Forensics |
| The study of the origins and social relationships of human beings. | Anthropology |
| A species of early humans that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period. | Neanderthals |
| Was an early group of Homo sapiens that lived about 40,000 years ago in what is now Europe. The earlyest known form of modern humans. | Cro-Magnons |
| A tool used to through spears faster and with more accuracy, also known as a spear thrower. | Atlatl |
| Primate human ancestors. | Hominid |
| A hard, sedimentry rock shaped into spear points, weapons and tools by early humans during the Stone Age. | Flint |
| Reddish-brown metal; used by early humans and civilizations, before the Bronze Age, to make tools and weapons. | Copper |
| supplying land with water from another place through a network of cannals. | Irrigation |
| More of a thing or product than is needed. | Surplus |
| A worker who is especially skilled in making somthing, such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewlery, pottery, or clothes. | Artisan |
| A society with cities, a central govenment run by oficial leadres, and workers who specialize in certain jobs, leading to social classes. Writing, art, and architecture also characterizw a civilization | Civilization |
| A group, or class that is made up of people with similar backrounds, wealth, and ways of living. | Social class |
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