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BMMS Early Man Ch. 1
BMMS Early Man
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| Great Rift Valley | a valley in East Africa where two continental plates have pulled apart over millions of years |
| Lucy | an almost complete Australopithecus skeleton found in 1974 by Don Johanson |
| Neanderthal | a member of an ancient people who lived in Europe from 35,000 to 130,000 years ago during the ice age. They were the real "cave man" |
| artifact | a human made object |
| fossil | a preserved remain of early life |
| hominid | the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors). |
| Paleolithic Age | "Old Stone Age" an era lasting from 2.5 million to 8000B.C. hunter-gatherers, pre-history, fire discovered, made stone tools, nomads |
| Mesolithic Age | "Middle Stone Age" an era lasting from 10,000 to 6,000 B.C. |
| Neolithic Age | "New Stone Age" an era lasting from 8,000 to 3,000 B.C. agriculture, domestication, stopped traveling, job specialization, food surplus, more people |
| primary source | something written or created by a person who witnessed a historical event |
| secondary source | an account of a historical event written by someone who did not witness the event |
| B.C. | Before Christ |
| A.D. | anno domini "Year of the Lord" |
| B.C.E. | Before the Common Era |
| C.E. | Common Era |
| circa | often abbreviated c., ca., ca or cca. and sometimes italicized to show it is Latin) literally means "about" or "around". |
| century | a period of 100 years |
| decade | a period of 10 years |
| millennium | a period of 1000 years |
| Luis & Mary Leakey | husband and wife anthropologists who discovered Homo habilis, their discoveries showed human evolution began in Africa |
| Cro-Magnon | The earliest known form of modern humans, Homo sapiens, to be found in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic. First to create artwork |
| culture | includes a people's beliefs, common language, and shared ways of doing things |
| Australopithecus | means "southern ape" Lucy's kind, lived 3 to 4 million years ago. |
| Homo habilis | "handy human" this hominid was the first to make stone tools |
| Homo erectus | "Upright man" first to walk fully upright, use fire, and leave Africa. |
| Homo sapiens | modern humans 400,000 B.C. to the present |
| Don Johanson | he discovered "Lucy" in 1974 |
| bipedalism | the condition of being two-footed or of using two feet for standing and walking. |
| hominim | the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, and Australopithecus, ). |
| Raymond Dart | Anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus |
| Eugene DuBois | Dutch surgeon who discovered the Homo erectus species in 1891. |
| quadruped | animals with four legs |
| nomad | a person who moves from place to place; no permanent home |
| migration | movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions. |
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