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time before there was writing   prehistory  
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an early ancestor of humans   hominid  
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a relative who lived in the past   Ancestor  
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an object that has been modified to help a person   tool  
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the first part of stone age; when people first used stone tools   paleolithic era  
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a community of people who share a common culture   society  
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people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive   hunters & gathers  
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to move to a new place   migrate  
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long periods of freezing weather   Ice age  
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a strip of land connecting two continentes   land bridge  
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the middle part of the stone age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex tools   mesolithic era  
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the new stone age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills   neolithic era  
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the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans   domestication  
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farming   agriculture  
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a huge stone monument   megaliths  
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Famous megalith    
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Archaeologist who believed that bones found in East Africa in 1959 belonged to hominids    
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To divide among a group of people    
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Name means "southern ape"    
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type of bone used to build early houses   mammoth  
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famous megalith   stonehenge  
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  Mary Leakey  
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to divide among a group of people   distribute  
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Name means" southern ape"   Australopithecus  
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