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Early Humans vocab
Jennifer Fleming Per.F
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scientific study of historic or prehistoric humans and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains | Archaeologist |
| an institution in Washington, D.C., founded 1846. | Smithsonian Institution |
| Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act. | N.A.G.P.R.A |
| People who have light, fair skin. Classified by thier Race. | Caucasian |
| The movement from one place to another. | Migration |
| A member or members of a tribe that constantly have to move because of migrating game. | Nomad |
| To tame animals | Domesticate |
| more then enough crops. | Fertile |
| A spear thrower | Atlatl |
| History before written documentations were taken. | Prehistory |
| The record of past events and times | History |
| A community's culture passed down from generation to generation. | Oral Traditions |
| The latest part of the stone age, began in about 10,000 b.c | Neolithic |
| study of argumentation and formal debate. | forensics |
| More of a thing or product than is needed | surplus |
| a network of canals that supply land with water so you dont run out | Irrigation |
| A worker who is especially skilled in making something | Artisan |
| A society with cities, centeral government run by official leaders and workers. | Civilization |
| a chemical process used to find how old an artifact is | Radio-carbon dating |
| a Group of people distinct from other groups who share a common culture. | Social Class |
| of or pertaining to a Paleo-Indian cultural tradition of North America, | Clovis |
| Random changes in a gene pool, usually in small populations . | genetic drift |
| before christ | B.C |
| A long period of time! | Era |
| After death | A.D |
| before christ era | B.C.E |
| Common Era | C.E |
| A period of 10 years | Decade |
| A period of 100 years | Century |
| A period of 1,000 years | Millennium |
| 20 years | Score |
| Early Part of the Stone age in which humans begin to hunt | Old Stone Age |
| the study of mans spatial relationship to the enviroment | Geography |
| the name for the skelatal remains of a prehistoric man found on the bank of the columbia river in Kennewick/ Washington USA. July 28th 1996. The remains were radio-carbon dated 9,400 years ago. | Kennewick MAn |
| physical characteristics or traits of a human skull such as height width of the cheek bone shape of eye sockets, chin ect. | Morphology |
| an ancient mass of ice that moves over land | Glacier |
| was a land bridge 1,000 miles north to south | Berling land bridge |
| the study of the origins and social relationships of human beings | Anthropolgy |
| a species of early humans that disapeared at the end of the paleolithic | Neanderthals |
| was an group of Homosapiens | Cro-Magnons |
| a hard sedimentary rock shaped in. | Flint |
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