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SS Unit 1 Terms
It's with definitions of words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| artifact | usually a simple object as a toll or ornament showing human work, and representing a culture, or a stage, in the development of a culture. |
| archaeologist | a scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts |
| B.C.E | Before the Common Era/Before the birth of Christ |
| Çatalhöyük | Neolithic site in present day Turkey |
| C.E | Common Era |
| domestication | the taming & training of plants and animals to be useful to humans |
| excavate | to carefully dig up (archaeologists will excavate historical sites to find bones, artifacts, ruins, etc.) |
| fossil | remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, such as a skeleton or a footprint |
| historian | people who study and write about the past |
| hunter-gatherer | humans that hunt wild animals, or gather edible plants as a way to feed themselves |
| migration | movement from one country, place, or locality to another |
| Neolithic Age | later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements (agriculture began during this time) |