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prehistory list
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| prehistory | the time period before written records |
| anthropology | the study of humans and their development,including human culture and human behavior |
| hominid | early relatives to modern day humans |
| ancestor | relatives or family members how lived in the past |
| australopithecus | southern ape and believed it be the first hominids capable of walking on 2 feet |
| homo habilis | handy man and believed to be one of the first hominids to create stone tools |
| homo erectus | upright man and believed to be the first hominids to walk on two feet full time learn to control fire and migrate outside of Africa |
| homo sapien | wise man and the group including modern day humans which is believed to be the first hominids to developed language |
| neanderthals | the closest extinct hominid to humans who lived across Europe and central Asia and believed to be the first hominid to bury there dead |
| Lucy | Australopithecus whose remains are more than 3 million years old |
| otzi the iceman | homo sapiens from the stone age who was discovered frozen in a glacier and is one of the oldest mummies in human history |
| technology | the application of science and engineering to create tools that improve the quality of life |
| tools | a handheld object that is designed to help complete a specific task |
| stone age | period of time where humans invented and primarily used stone tools |