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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | farming (raising of plants and animals for food) |
| domestication | tame livestock (animals) for human use (meat, milk) |
| archaeologist | scientist who digs up and studies human remains to piece together the story of the past |
| noamds | people who move place to place with no settled home |
| Neolithic Revolution | the end of the Old Stone Age; people began farming and stayed in one place |
| Cave paintings | used as a way for early people to communicate |
| Africa | where early humans originated from |
| technology | Early people developed tools to make their lives easier for hunting and farming |
| artifact | human made object from long ago that clues about the past |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age, people were nomadic and lived in small groups; people hunted and gathered food |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age, people stopped moving around and began to live in societies that farmed and used tools; they had more time for lesiure |