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Early humans by tori
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archaeologists | Scientists who examine objects to learn about past people and their cultures. |
| Smithsonian Institution | an institution in Washington, D.C., founded 1846 with a grant left by James Smithson, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge: U.S. national museum and repository. |
| N.A.G.P.R.A | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is a United States federal law passed on 16 November 1990 that return Native American cultural items and human remains to their peoples. |
| Caucasian | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly curled hair, and light to very dark eyes, my definition: a race |
| migration | the movement of a large group of people or animals |
| nomad | A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer. |
| domesticate | To tame animals. |
| fertile | any land or soil having the nutrition a plant needs to grow. |
| atlatl (spear thrower) | a flexible device for launching a spear, usually a short cord wound around the spear so that when thrown the weapon will rotate in the air. |
| prehistory | the period of time in the past before writing was invented |
| history | the recorded events of people |
| oral traditions | stories passed down by word of mouth |
| neolithic | the New stone age when farming and domestication of animals was developed. |
| forensics | the art or study of argumentation and formal debate. |
| radio-carbon dating | , is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years. |
| 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. |
| genetic drift | random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations. |
| morphology | the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms. |
| Surplus | more than needed |
| civilization | a society that has citie, a central government run by leaders and workers who specialize in jobs. |
| irrigation | a series of ditches, canals or any supply of water that gives water to land |
| social class | people who have similar backgrounds and are defined as a certain class or group |
| artisan | a person skilled in an art or job |
| Decade | 10 years |
| score | 20 years |
| century | 100 years |
| millennium | 1,000 years |
| era | long period of time |
| epoch | long period of time |
| period | long period of time |
| Kennewick Man | 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. |
| Geography | 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. |
| Paleolithic | old stone age |
| Old 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 |
| Cro-Magnons | 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. |
| 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 mammals. Named after the site in Clovis, NM |
| Neanderthals | a species of early humans that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period |
| hominid | primate human ancestors |
| anthropology | the study of the origins and social relationships of human beings |
| B.C. | Before Christ |
| A.D. | In the year of the lord: since christ was born Latin "Anno Domini", |
| B.C.E | Before Common Era |
| C.E. | common era the period coinciding with the Christian era; |
| copper | reddish-brown metal; used by early humans and civilizations, before the Bronze Age, to make tools and weapons |
| flint | a hard,sedimentary rock shaped into spear points, weapons and tools by early humans during the Stone Age |
| glacier | an ancient mass of ice that moves over land |
| Stone Age | a period of time during which humans made tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture |
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