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Early Humans T-1
Early Humans Trimester 1 Mr. Blanchette
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| time period before writing | Prehistory |
| stories passed down by word of mouth | Oral Tradition |
| the written and other recorded events of people | History |
| a scientist who stdies bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures | Archeologist |
| An educational and research institute and associated museum complex | Smithsonian Institution |
| A federal law requiring federal agencies and intitutions to return cultural items and human remains to their respective people | N.A.G.P.R.A. |
| general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa etc. White race | Caucasian |
| to relocate;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 in order to grow well | Fertile |
| spear thrower | Atlatal |
| time period when people began to grow their own foods and lived in the same place year after year | Neolithic |
| sciences used to solve crimes and support archeological findings | Forensics |
| a radiometric method used to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years old | Radio-Carbon Dating |
| oldest flint tools associated with north american culture | Clovis |
| populations moving closer together for survival | Genetic Drift |
| the study of physical characteristics of skulls | Morphology |
| time period of 10 years | Decade |
| time period of 100 years | Century |
| time period od 1,000 years | millenium |
| long period of time | era |