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SS Unit 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| History | a written record of what happened in the past |
| Prehistory | time before written history |
| Oral Tradition | legends, myths, and beliefs that a culture passes from generation to generation by word of mouth |
| Historian | an expert who studies and records the past |
| Archaeologist | an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind. |
| Geographer | an expert who studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and man-made resources. |
| Primary Source | information about people or events from the time the people lived or the events took place |
| Secondary Source | information about people or events recorded long after the people lived or the events took place |
| Excavation | digging in an area of ground to uncover remains from the past |
| Artifact | an object made or used by people in the past |
| Fossil | remains or imprint of a plant or animal from a past age |
| Anthropologist | a scientist who studies human development |
| Hominin | an early ancestor of humans |
| Migrate | to move from one geographic place to another |
| Ritual | relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony |