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early humans-jl
trimester 1- social studies- mr.b
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a scientist who examines bones,tools,structures and other objects to learn about past people and cultures | archaeologist |
| a reasearch institute and meuseum complex | Smithsonian Institution |
| Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | N.A.G.P.R.A. |
| white race | caucasian |
| to move from one place to settle in another area | migration |
| a person who has no single settled home | nomad |
| to tame animals and raise them to be used by humans | domesticate |
| land or soil that contains substances plants need to grow well | fertile |
| a spear thrower | atlatl |
| before history;the events in the period of timebefore writing was invented | prehistory |
| the written and other recorded events of people | history |
| stories passed down through genereations by word of mouth | oraltradition |
| the new stone age | Neolithic |
| scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | forensics |
| a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14 | Radiocarbon dating |
| a spear point | clovis |
| the random change in gene frequencies in populations | genetic drift |
| the study of form or structure | morphology |
| supplying land with water through a network of canals | irrigation |
| more of a thing or product than is needed | surplus |
| a worker who is especially skilled in making something, such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewelry, pottery, or clothes | artisan |
| a society with cities, a central government run by official leaders, and workers who specialize in certain jobs, leading to social classes. Writing, art, and architecture also characterize a civilization | civilization |
| a group, or class, that is made up of people with similar backgrounds, wealth, and ways of living | social class |
| a ten year period | decade |
| a hundred year period | century |
| a thousand year period | millennium |
| a period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic feature <the era of the horse and buggy> | era |
| before christ | b.c |
| before common era | b.c.e |
| Anno Domini the year of our lord | a.d |
| common era | c.e |
| a period of time during which humans made tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture Stone Age | stone age |
| the early part of the Stone Age during which humans learned to hunt in groups, discovered how to use fire, and became nomads | Old Stone Age |
| The study of man's spatial relationship to the environment. The study of Earth's surface and the processes that shape(d)it, the connections between places,resources, and living things. | geography |
| 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 |
| an ancient mass of ice that moves over land | glacier |
| was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages. | Bering land bridge |
| the study of the origins and social relationships of human beings | anthropology |
| primate human ancestors | hominid |
| a hard,sedimentary 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 |
| was an early group of Homo sapiens (the species to which we belong) that lived about 40,000 years ago in what is now Europe. The earliest known form of modern humans. | Cro-Magnons |
| a species of early humans that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period | neanderthals |
| thousands of years | Epoch |
| twenty years | score |
| An, event, person, Invention or idea, that changes human history fron that point on. | paradigm shift |
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