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SS unit 1 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| archaeologist | a scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts |
| artifact | usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing human work,and representing a culture or a stage, in the development of a culture |
| B.C.E. | before the common era (before the birth of christ) |
| catal hoyuk | neolithic site in present day turkey |
| C.E. | common era the global standard used to count years based on traditionally reckoned year of the birth of christ |
| domestication | the taming & training of plants and animals to be useful to humans |
| excavate | to carefully dig up (archaeologists will excavate up 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) |
| neolithic revolution | a fundamental change in the way people lived, they went from hunting and gathering to agriculture -which led to permanent settlements |
| 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 hot molten or semifluid rock from a volcano cools |
| paleolithic age | early phase of the stone age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used |
| prehistory | the time period before any written records |
| primary source | an artifact, a document, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. it serves as an original source of information about the topic |
| secondary source | documents written after an event has occurred, providing secondhand |
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