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SS Asselin
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Before history; the events in the period of time before writing was invented | Prehistory |
| To relocate; to move from one place to settle in another area | migrate |
| A person who has no single, settled home; follows seasonal food sources | Nomad |
| Stories passed down through generations by word of mouth | Oral traditions |
| The early part of the Stone Age during which humans learned to hunt in groups, discovered how to use fire and became nomads | Old Stone Age |
| A period of time during which humans made tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture | Stone Age |
| New stone age | Neolithic |
| The written and other recorded events of humans; the study of man over time | History |
| To tame animals and raise them to be used by humans for food, labor, and transportation | Domesticate |
| A scientist who examines bones, tools, structures and other artifacts to learn about peoples and cultures from the past | Archaeologist |
| The study of man’s spatial relationship to the environment. The study of Earth’s surface and the processes that shape(d) it, the connections between places, resources and living things | Geography |
| The world’s largest museum and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. Located on the National Mall in Washington, DC | Smithsonian Institution |
| Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act According to NAGPRA, if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a Native American tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe can claim them. | N.A.G.P.R.A. |
| The name for the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, USA on July 28, 1996. The remains were radio-carbon dated to 9,400 years old. | Kennewick Man |
| Important evolutionary process that leads to changes in gene variation over time. (may explain why more recent Native American skeletons don’t look like earlier skeletons) | Genetic drift |
| Physical characteristics or traits of a human skill such as height, width of cheek bones, shape of the eye sockets and chin, etc | Morphology |
| An ancient mass of ice that moves over land | Glacier |
| Is a dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 to determine the age of bones and materials up to about 60,000 years | Radio-carbon dating |
| Was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages. | Clovis |
| Scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes and archaeological finds | Forensics |
| the study of the origins and social relationships of human beings | Anthropology |
| A species of early humans that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period | Neanderthals |
| Was an early group of Homo sapiens (the species to which we belong) that lived about 40,000 years ago in what is now Europe. The earliest known form of modern hums. | Cro-Magnons |
| A tool used to throw spears faster and with more accuracy, also known as a spear thrower | Atlatl |
| Primate human ancestors | Hominid |
| A hard, sedimentary rock shaped into spear points, weapons and tools by early humans during the Stone Age | Flint |
| Reddish-brown metal; used by early humans and civilizations, before the bronze Age, to make tools and weapons. | copper |
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