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What is an archaeologist? A scientist who studies what happened in the past.
What is a primary source? A document or object created by someone who witnessed or experienced an event.
What is a secondary source? A document or object created after an event by someone who did not see it.
What is a fossil? Remains of organisms that lived long ago.
What is an artifact? A human-made object from the past.
What is oral history? An unwritten account passed down through generations as stories or songs.
How long have Homo sapiens existed? About 200,000 years.
Where did Homo sapiens first appear? Africa.
What age did early Homo sapiens live during? The Paleolithic Age, or Old Stone Age.
What does Homo sapiens mean? “Wise man.”
What did early Homo sapiens make? Simple tools and weapons from stone.
What did early Homo sapiens look like? They looked very much like humans today.
Who discovered important early Homo sapiens skulls in 1967? Archaeologist Richard Leakey.
Where were the skulls discovered? Near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.
When did early humans appear on the timeline? Around 175,000 BCE.
When did people move to new lands? Around 100,000 BCE.
What happened around 50,000 BCE? Cave art and better tools appeared.
When did farming begin? Around 10,000 BCE.
When did writing develop? Around 3,000 BCE.
What is prehistory? The time before written records.
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