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Social Studies Vocab
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 an object made or used by people in 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 |