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PrehistoryStoneAge
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| archaelogy | study of ancient materials and prehistoric remains |
| anthropologist | someone who studies human societies and their environment |
| Lucy | discovered by Johanson and Gray, the remains of the oldest and a mostly complete hominin skeleton |
| Africa | Leakey's discovered fossil proof of the earliest human remains/hominins in East Africa |
| artifacts | manmade objects left behind by the people of that time period |
| homo habilis | handy; skillful man |
| homo erectus | man who walks upright |
| homo sapiens | modern and intelligent human; man who thinks |
| Paleolithic Period | Old Stone; very first humans such as Neaderthals and Cro-Magnons; cave paintings first used |
| Mesolithic Period | Middle Stone Age; beginning of domesticating animals but still very much relying on hunting-gathering; used spears, bows, arrows, nets |
| Neolithic Period | New Stone Age; a time of homo sapiens and the development of occupations (potters, weavers) and agriculture + animal domestication was a staple |
| Stone Age | a time period of nearly three million years ago in which early humans used stone to create tools; split into three categories (Paleo/Meso/Neo) |
| Agricultural Revolution | allowed humans to change from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of agriculture and animal domestications |
| nomadic | moving from place to place; no permanent home |
| fire | one of the first technologies; discovered by accident |
| civilizations | a group of people with their own languages and way of life; a complex culture in which large numbers of human beings who share a number of common elements. |
| artisan | worker in a skilled trade |
| animal migrations | how people first survived; by following herds of animals from place to place |
| spear | the invention that made hunting easier for early humans |
| systematic agriculture | the shift from the hunting of animals and the gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis |
| artifact | an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest. |
| fossil | remains of a once-living organism; A remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in the earth's crust |
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