Mid-term Review
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laniheartshorses on January 27, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 How do scientists study life in the distant past? | By studying artifacts, human and animal remains, tools, and weapons. |
| What was life like in the Old Stone Age? | Everyone had to hunt and gather for food, life could be very difficult. |
| Prehistory | History before the existence of the written language. |
| Old Stone Age | 4mya-8000BC, Beginning of spoken language, nomads, cave paintings, artifacts, buried their dead-early religion, life after death, fire, relied on geography, stone weapons and tools |
| New Stone Age | 8000BC-3000BC, Neolithic Revolution-settle in one place, domesticate animals, farm, trade/barter, specialization-artisans, 1st governments, copper and bronze tools/weapons, religions develop |
| Artifact | an object made by humans |
| Culture | A way of life handed down from one generation to the next |
| Fossil | an imprint of a once-living creature;not manmade |
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