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early humans kk
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A scientist who examines bones, tool structures and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures. | Archeologist |
| An institution in Washington D.C founded in 1846. | Smithsonian Institution |
| A native Caucasia | Caucasian |
| To move from one place to settle in another area. | Migrate |
| A person who has no single settled home. | Nomad |
| To tame animals and raise them to be used by humans. | Domesticate |
| Land or soil that contains substances plants need in order to grow well. | Fertile |
| An object that fires spears. | Atlatl(spear thrower) |
| Events that occurred at the period of time before writing was invented. | Prehistory |
| The written and other recorded events of people | History |
| Stories passed down by generations of word of mouth. | Oral Tradition |
| The development of agriculture around 10,000 B.C by making thing out of stone. | Neolithic |
| The art or study of argumentation and formal debate. | Forensics |
| A projectile point used to hunt big game. | Clovis |
| Random changes in the frequency of alleles in the gene pool, usually in small populations. | Genetic Drift |
| The branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms. | Morphology |
| Native American Graves Preservation and Repratation act. | N.A.G.P.R.A |
| A dating meothod that uses the naturaly occuring radiostope carbon-14 to determine the age of bonesand materials up to 60000 years. | Radio Carbon-dating |
| A net work of cannals to supply a land with water rrom another place. | Irrigation |
| Having more then what is needed. | Surplus |
| Workers who are especialy skilled in making items. | Artisan |
| A society that has cities a central government and workers. | Civilization |
| A group or class that is made up of people with similar backrounds wealth and ways of living. | Social Class |
| The name for the skelital remains of a prehistoric man found on the bank of the columbia river in kenowick Washington USA on july 28 1996. The remains were radio cabon-dated to 9400 years old. | Kenowick Man |
| An ancient mass of ice that moves over land. | Glaicier |
| Was a land bridge around 1000 miles north to south as its greatest extent that joined present day Alaska and Eastern Siberia at various times during the pieistocene ice ages. | Bering land Bridge |
| The study of the origins and social relationships of human beings | Antrophology |
| A spicies of early humans that disapered at the end of the Paleolithic period. | Neandrathals |
| They were the earliest form of modern day humans.An ealy group of homo sapiens that lived about 40000 years ago in what is now Euope. | Cro-Magnons |
| Primate human ancestor | homanid |
| A hard sedimentary rock that could be shaped into spear points weopons and tools by early humans during the stone age. | Flint |
| A reddish brown metal used by early humans and civilizations before the bronze age to make tools and weopons. | Copper |
| A long period of time. | Era or Epoch |
| Ten years. | Decade |
| Twenty years. | Score |
| One hundred years. | Centry |
| One thousand years. | Millenium |
| An event, person, invention or idea that changed human history from that point on. | Paradign Shift |
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