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SS Unit 1 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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History | a written record of what happened in the past |
prehistory | time before written history |
oral tradition | legend myth and beliefs that a culture passes from generation to generation by word of mouth |
historian | a expert who studies and record the past |
archaeologist | An expert who studies the past by examining object that people left be hide |
geographer | an expert who studies and creates map of earth natural and human made features |
primary source | information about people or events recorded long after the people lived or the event that took place |
secondary source | information about people or event recorded long after the people lived or the event took place |
excavation | digging in an area of ground to uncover remains of the past |
artifact | an object made or used by people in the past |
fossil | remains or imprint of a plant or animal from the past age |
anthropologist | a scientist who studied human development |
hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
migrate | to move from one geographic place to another |
ritual | relating to ceremony such as religious ceremony |