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socail studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| archaeologist | a scientist who examines bones,tools,structures, and other objects to learn about past people and cultures |
| migration | to relocate;to move from one place to settle in another area |
| N.A.G.P.R.A | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.if humans remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a native american tribe can bge established the affiliated tribe can claim them |
| Smithsonian Institution | the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. |
| caucasion | |
| prehistory | before history; the events in the period of time before writing was invented |
| nomads | a person who has no single settled home. follows seasonal food sources |
| oral tradition | stories passed down though generation by word of mouth |
| old stone age | the early parts of the stone age during which humans learned to hunt in groups, discovered how to use fire and became nomads |
| stone age | a period of time during which humans made tools and weapons mainly from stone;the earliest known period of human culture |
| neolithic | new stone age |
| history | the written and other recorded events of humans;the study of man over time |
| domesticate | to tame animals and raise them to be used by humans for food and labor and transportation |
| geography | The study of mans spatial relationship to the environment.The study of Earths surface and the processes that shape (d) it, the connections between places,resources,and living things |
| kennewick man | is 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 |
| genetic drift | important evolutionary process that leads to changes in gene varition over time (may expolain why more recent native americans skeletons don't look like earlier skeletons |
| morphology | physical characteristics or traits of a human skull such as height,width,of the cheek bone,shape of the eye socket and chin, etc. |
| glacier | an ancient mass of ice that moves over land |
| radio-carbon | is a dating method that uses the naturally occuring radioisotope carbon-14 to determine that ages of bones and materials up to about 60,000 years |
| clovis | a prehistoric culture that appears around 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last glacial period,known for the sharp,flint spear points adapted to the hunting of large mammels. Named after the site in clovis,NM |
| Bering land bridge | 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 |
| forensics | scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes and archaeological finds |
| anthropology | the study of the orgins and socail relationships of human beings |
| Neanderthals | a species of early humans that dissappeared at the end of the paleolithic period |
| cro-magnons | was an early group of homo sapien(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 |
| atlatl | a tool used to throw spears faster and with more accuracy, also known as a spear thrower |
| hominid | primate human ancestors |
| flint | a hard, sedimentary rock shaped into spear points, weapons and tools by early humans during the Stone Age |
| Copper | reddish-brown metal;used by early humans and civilizations,before the Bronze Age, to make tools and weapons |
| irrigation | The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops |
| surplus | something that remains above what is used or needed |
| artisan | a person skilled in an applied art; a crafts person |
| civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry and government has been reached |
| social class | A group or class made up of similar people |
| century | 100 years |
| millennium | 1000 years |
| decade | 10 years |
| era | a period of time marked by a distinctive character, events, e.t.c |
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