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unit 1 social studies vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 human-made features |
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 |
anthropoolgist | 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 |