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Kayla N T1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a scientist who examines bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures. | archeologists |
| The worlds largest museum complex and research orginizationcomposed fo 19 musuems, 9 research centers and the National Zoo located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. | Smithsonian Instituion |
| Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation. if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affliliation to a Native American tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe can claim them. | N.A.G.P.R.A |
| White: a member of the Caucasoid 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. (not applied until Beggining of new stone age) | domesticate |
| land or soil that contains substances plants need in order to grow well. | fertile |
| is a tool thats used to throw spears faster and with more accuracy. | atlatl (spear thrower) |
| before history; the events in the period of time before writing was invented. | prehistory |
| the written and other recorded events of people. | history |
| stories passed down through generations by word or mouth. | oral tradition |
| The Neolithic Period ; also called The New Stone Age. Beggining around 10,000 b.c. | Neolithic |
| scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes. (using fingerprints, blood tests, handwriting anylasis etc. | forensics |
| The dating method that uses the naturally occuring radioistope carbon- 14 to determine the age of bones and materials up to 60,000 years. | Radio- carbon dating |
| A prehistoric culture that appears around 10,000 years ago at the end of the last glacier period, known for the sharp flint spear points adapted to the hunting of large mammals. | colvis |
| Random changes in gene frequency especially in small populations when leading to preservation or extinction of particular genes. | Genetic Drift |
| physical characteristics or traits of the human skull, sucha as height, width of cheek bones, shape of eye sockets, chin, ect. | morphology |
| 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 |
| A period of time during which humans made tools and weapons mainly from stones; the earliest known period of human culture. | Stone Age |
| The study of man's spatial relationship to the enviorment. The study of earth's surface and the processes that shaped it, the connections between places, resorces and living things and its division into continents. | Geography |
| The name for the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington on July 28, 1996. | Kennewick Man |
| an ancient mass of ice that moves over land. | Glacier |
| The study of origins and social relationships of human beings. | Anthroplology |
| Was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles North to South and its greatest extent which joined present day Alaska and Eastern Siberia at various times during the Plestocence ice ages. | Bering Land Bridge |
| a species of early humans that dissapeared 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 Europe, the earliest form of modern humans. (species to which we belong ) | Cro- Magnons |
| primate human ancestors. | Hominid |
| A hard sedimentary rock shaped into spear points weapons and tools by early humans during the Stone Age. | Flint |
| reddish-brownish metal used by early humans and civilizations before the Bronze Age to make tools and weapons. conducts heat and electricity. | Copper |
| A network of canals to supply land with water from another place. | Irrigation |
| More than what is needed. | Surplus |
| Workers skilled in making items such as baskets. | Artisans |
| A society that has cities, a central government ran by official leaders and workers who specialize in various jobs. | Civilization |
| part of a group or class made up of others with similar backgrounds, wealth or way of life. | Social Classes |
| 10 years. example 2001-2010 | Decade |
| 20 years. | Score |
| 100 years. | Century |
| 1,000 years. | millenium |
| long period of time. | Era |
| an event, person, invention, or idea that changes human history from that point on. | Paradigm Shift |
| Thousands of years | Epoch |
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