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early humans- 007
18 vocab interesting words about early civilition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what's an archologist? | A scientist that examines structures, bones, tools, and other stone age objects. |
| What's the defination of Smithsonian Institution? | The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute. |
| What does N.A.G.P.R.A mean? | It means the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. |
| What is a Cauasian? | a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere. |
| what does migration mean? | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another. |
| What does nomad mean? | a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons. |
| what does it mean when you use the word domesticate? | to adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment. |
| what does fertile mean? | being capable of reproducing. |
| atlatl- | is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart |
| Prehistory- | the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word |
| history- | the aggregate of past events |
| oral tradition- | Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore are messages or testimony transmitted orally from one generation to another |
| Neothlithic- | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere) of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age |
| forensics- | scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes |
| radio-carbon dating- | is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years |
| clovis- | king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic `Louis' |
| cenetic drift- | the random fluctuation in the frequency of an allele, resulting mainly from the vagaries of chance mating—is also an evolutionary mechanism |
| morphlogogy- | the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants |
| Dead Sea | is a salt lake in Jordan to the east and in the West Bank and Israel to the west |
| Persian Gulf |
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