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Pre-history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archaeology | the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts |
| Anthropology | the study of humanity, encompassing our biology, cultures, societies, and past |
| Hominid | a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes. |
| Homo Sapiens sapiens | the subspecies of the genus Homo in which modern humans are classified. |
| Out of Africa theory | proposes that all modern humans originated from a single population in Africa and subsequently migrated to other parts of the world, replacing existing archaic human populations like Neanderthals |
| Domestication | Using animals for our benefit |
| Paleolithic | relating to or denoting the oldest phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used. |
| Neolithic | relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. New stone age-started farming |
| Catalhuyuk | A place in Turkey for the Neolithic |
| Surplus food | An excess amount of food |