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EARLY HUMANS-A.M.M.
TRIMESTER 1-SS-MR B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A scientist who examines bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past people and cultures. | Archaeologists |
| The national museum of natural history. | Smithsonian Institution |
| Native American Graves Protection & Repatraition Act- According to NAGPRA, if humans remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affliliation to a Native American tribe can be established, the affliated tribe can claim them. | N.A.G.P.R.A |
| A member of a race of peoples who have light or tan skin. It refers to many people from Europe, Amrica, north Africa, India, and other regions. | Caucasian |
| To relocate:to move from one place t settle in another area. | Migration |
| A person who has no single, settled home and moves around numerous times. | Nomad |
| To tame animals and raise them to be used by people. This was not applied until the beginning of the New Stone Age. | Demesticate |
| Land or soil that contains subtances plants need in order grow well. | Fertile |
| 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 of mouth. | Oral Traditons |
| Of or relating to the culture period of the Stone Age beginning around 10,000 B.c in the Middle East and elsewhere, characterized by the development of agriculture and the making of polished stone implements. | Neolithic |
| Using science to help investigate or solve crimes. A forensic investigation uses fingerprints, blood tests, handwriting analyis, ect. | Forensics |
| The determination of the approximater age of an ancient object. | Radio Carben Dating |
| Of or pertaining to a Paleo-Indian cultural tradition of North America, esp. the American Southwest, dated 10,000-9,000 B.C and characterized by a usually bificial, fluted stone projectile point(Clovis Point) used in big-game hungting. | Clovis |
| Random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations. | Genetic Drift |
| The form or stucture of anything: to gain an insight into the morphology of our political system. | Morphology |
| a tool used to throw spears faster and with more accuracy, also known as spear thrower. | Atlatl |
| An acient mass of ice that moves land. | Glacier |
| Move from on land to settle in another. | Migrate |
| The science that describes the surface of the earth, and its division into continents. | Geography |
| One of the oldest and best preserved bodies ever found ever found; discovered on the border between Austrailia and Italy in 1991; is beleived to be from Europe's Copper Age. | Kennewick Man |
| A land bridge between Siberia and Alaska that was exposed during the most recent Ice Age when the waters of the Bering Strait receded. | Bering Land Bridge |
| Stone,and slate | Flint |
| A common metal of reddish color, a good conducter of heat and electricty. | Copper |
| To supply with water by causing a stream to flow through, as in channels. | Irrigation |
| A worker who is especially skilled in making something, such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewlery, pottery, or clothes. | Artisan |
| A society of cities, ccentral government run by official leaders, and workers who specialize in certain jobs, leading to social classes. | Civilization |
| A group, or class, that is amde up of people with similiar backgrounds, wealth and ways of living. | Social Class |
| The study of the origins and social relationships of human beings. | Anthropology |
| Was and early group 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 humans. | Cro-Magnons |
| A species of early humans that disappeared at the end of the Paleothic Period. | Neanderthals |
| Primate human ancestors. | Hominid |
| More of a thing or product then needed. | Surplus |
| 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 from mainly stone; the earliest known period of human culture. | Stone Age |
| Ten years. ex.2001-2010 | Decade |
| Twenty years. | Score |
| A hunred years | Century |
| A thousand years | Millenium |
| Long period of time. | Era |
| Means thousands of years. | Epoch |
| An, event, person, Invention or idea, that changes human history fron that point on. | Paradigm Shft |
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