| Term | Definition |
| remains | a dead body |
| anthropologist | scientist who studies human development and culture |
| hominid | prehistoric humans |
| capabilities | skills |
| biped | a two footed animal |
| migrate | to move from one geographic place to another |
| land bridge | a piece of land connecting one continent to another |
| Australopithecus Afarensis | Lucy earliest known group of hominids that carried young Africa |
| Homo Habilis | Handy Man 1.5-2 million years ago lived in groups Africa, Asia , Europe |
| Homo Erectus | 1.8-200,000 BCE Africa, Asia, Europe,used fire, cooked meat Upright Man |
| Neanderthal | Africa, Near East, Asia,Europe sense of community, healed each other, hunted in groups, |
| Spear thrower | Kill animals from a distance |