Question | Answer |
time period before writing | Prehistory |
stories passed down by word of mouth | Oral Tradition |
the written and other recorded events of people | History |
a scientist who stdies bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures | Archeologist |
An educational and research institute and associated museum complex | Smithsonian Institution |
A federal law requiring federal agencies and intitutions to return cultural items and human remains to their respective people | N.A.G.P.R.A. |
general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa etc. White race | Caucasian |
to relocate;to move from one place to settle in another area | Migration |
a person who has no single,settled home | Nomad |
to tame animals and raise them to be used by humans | Domesticate |
land or soil that contains substances plants need in order to grow well | Fertile |
spear thrower | Atlatal |
time period when people began to grow their own foods and lived in the same place year after year | Neolithic |
sciences used to solve crimes and support archeological findings | Forensics |
a radiometric method used to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years old | Radio-Carbon Dating |
oldest flint tools associated with north american culture | Clovis |
populations moving closer together for survival | Genetic Drift |
the study of physical characteristics of skulls | Morphology |
time period of 10 years | Decade |
time period of 100 years | Century |
time period od 1,000 years | millenium |
long period of time | era |