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SS Unit 1 Terms
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artifact | Usually a simple object such as a tool showing human work. |
| Archaeologist | A scientist who studies human history. |
| Catal Hoyuk | Neolithic site in present day Turkey. |
| B.C.E | Before the Common Era. |
| Domestication | The taming & training of plants and animals to be useful to humans. |
| C.E | Common Era. |
| Fossil | Remains,Impression,or Trace of a living thing. |
| Excavate | To carefully dig up. |
| Hunter-Gatherer | Humans that hunt wild animals,or gather edible plants. |
| Historian | People who study and write about the past. |
| Neolithic age | later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements. |
| Migration | movement from one country, place, or locality to another. |
| Nomadic | having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land. |
| Neolithic revolution | a fundamental change in the way people lived, they went from hunting and gathering to agriculture- which led to permanent settlements . |
| Paleolithic Age | Early phase of the stone age,lasting about 2.5 million years. |
| Obsidian | a dark natural glass that forms when hot molten or semifluid rock from a volcano cools. |
| 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. |
| Prehistory | the time period before any written records. |
| Sedentary | staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places. |
| Secondary Source | Documents written after an event has occurred, providing secondhand accounts of that event, person, or topic. Secondary sources analyze and interpret Primary Sources. |
| Turning Point | he point at which a very significant change occurs . |
| Tribal | a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs, and leader. |