Unit 1:Prehistory Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Lucy | Australopithecus skeleton found in Africa |
Donald Johanson | Paleoanthropologist who discovered "Lucy" an Australopithecus skeleton |
paleoanthropologist | social scientist who studies prehistoric humans |
hominid | prehistoric human |
prehistory | time period before the invention of writing |
biped | an organism that has the ability to walk on two feet |
Louis and Mary Leakey | Archaeologists who discovered Homo Habilis fossils and tools in Africa |
migrate | to move from one region to another in search of food, a better climate, etc. |
Ice Age | Time period from about 2.5 M.Y.A until about 10,000 BCE when glaciers covered huge areas of the earth |
land bridges | areas of land left exposed due to lower water levels in the oceans during the Ice Age. |
Australopithecus Afarensis | 1st hominid group to walk upright on 2 feet |
Homo Habilis | 1st hominid group to make tools |
Homo Erectus | 1st hominid group to stand up straight, control fire, and migrate out of Africa |
Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis | 1st hominid group to develop communities, design more than 60 types of tools, and bury their dead in graves. |
Homo Sapiens Sapiens | 1st hominid group to make art, traveled to every continent except Antarctica, and made over 100 types of sophisticated tools |
3 MYA to 4 MYA | When Australopithecus lived |
2 MYA to 1.5 MYA | When Homo Habilis lived |
200,000 years ago to 1.8 MYA | When Homo Erectus Lived |
28,000 to 200,000 years ago | When Neanderthals lived |
Present to 150,000 Years ago | When Homo Sapiens Sapiens lived |
Stone Age | A time in prehistory when humans made and used stone (along with bone and wood) tools |
Paleolithic Age | The first part of the Stone Age when Early Humans lived as hunter-gatherers |
Neolithic Age | The last part of the Stone Age when early humans began to develop agriculture around 10,000 BCE - a.k.a. The Agricultural Revolution |
hunter-gatherer | Nomadic people who hunt animals and collect wild plants for food |
Cro-Magnon | A tall type of hominid found in Europe and the Middle East classified as the same species as modern-day humans |
Lascaux, France | Paleolithic cave containing over 600 paintings of horses, bison, deer, etc. |
agriculture | The process of domesticating plants and animals to provide food and other goods for human use |
domestication | The process of training or adapting a plant or animal to become more useful to humans |
specialized | To be designed for a specific purpose OR to have specific knowledge or training |
resources | a dependable supply of something useful that humans can use to make their lives easier |
Jericho | Neolithic town located in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank that is one of the oldest permanent settlements in the world |
Catal Hoyuk | A Neolithic archaeological site in southern Turkey that was the location of one of the world’s first real cities |
history | The written record of what happened in the past. |
primary source | Documents, or other objects, that are a record of past events created by people who were present at that time. |
secondary source | Information written long after the time period it describes by someone who has researched that event or time period. |
artifact | Objects made by humans. |
fossil | The remains or imprint of a once-living thing from a past geological age. |
oral tradition | The myths, stories, and beliefs passed from one generation to the next by word of mouth. |
chronology | The order events actually happened. |
archaeologist | A social scientist who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind. |
historian | A social scientist who studies and records (writes down) the past. |
geographer | A social scientist who studies and creates maps of the earth’s natural and human-made features. |
B.C.E. | Labels for dates of events that happened before Jesus was born. |
C.E. | Labels for dates of events that happened after Jesus was born. |
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