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Unit 1 Terms
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Term | Definition |
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Archaeologist | a scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts. |
Artifact | a simple objects such as a tool or ornament showing human work. (representing a culture or a stage of a culture) |
B.C.E. | Before the Common Era. (before the birth of Christ.) |
Catalhoyuk | Neolithic site in present day Turkey. |
fossil | remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint. |
C.E. | Common Era: the global standard used to count years based on the birth of Christ. |
migration | movement from one country, place, or locality. |
Neolithic | later part of the Stone age where people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements |
Neolithic Revolution | a fundamental change int the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture led to permanent. |
nomadic | having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land |
obsidian | a dark natural glass that forms when lava from a volcano cools (used to make arrow heads) |
Paleolithic | early part of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million yeas, when primitive stone implements were used |
sedentary | staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places, |
tribal | a group of people that live together (that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, beliefs and leader) |
turning point | the point at very significant (important) change occurs |