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artifacts |
human-made objects such as tools and jewelry, studied by archeologists |
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fossils |
evidence of early life preserved in rocks, studied by paleontologists |
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culture |
a people's unique way of life, studied by anthropologists |
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Paleolithic Age |
earlier and longer part of the stone age, called the old stone age, lasted from about 2.5 miillion to 8000 B.C. Oldest stone chopping tools date back to this era |
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Mesolithic Age |
a.k.a. middle stone age |
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Neolithic Age |
a.k.a. new stone age, began around 8000 B.C. and ended around 3000 B.C. People who lived during this time learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals |
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technology |
ways of aplying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs |
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nomadic life |
highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging or searching, for new sources of food. Nomads whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods are called hunter-gatherers |
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Agricultural Revolution |
a.k.a. Neolithic Revolution, the far reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming |
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Catal Huyuk |
located in fertile plain in Turkey, archeologists discovered this agricultural village in 1958, covered an area of 32 acres, home to 5,000-6,000 people, raised sheep and cattle and grew wheat, barley, and peas |
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Anthropologists |
people who study culture |
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Archeologists |
people who study artifacts |
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Hominids |
humans and other creatures that walk upright, such as australopithecines |
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Leakeys |
Louis B. Leakey and Mary Leakey began searching for early human remains in East Africa in the 1930s, Mary Leakey discovered the Laetoli footprints that were prehistoric and resembled modern humans footprints |
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Homo Habilis |
2.5 million to 1.5 million B.C., found in East Afric, first to make stone tools, means man of skill, used tools to cut meat and crack open bones |
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Homo Erectus |
1.6 million to 30,000 B.C., found in Afric, Asia, and Europe, means upright man, used their intelligence to develop technology, gradually became skillful hunters and invented more sophisticated tools for digging, scrapping, and cutting, first to develop language and master fire |
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Homo Sapiens |
species name for modern humans , means wise men, physically resembled homo erectus but had large brains, |
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Lucy |
Anthropoligist Donald Johanson and his team were searching for fossils in Ethiopia, in 1974 the team found a complete skeleton of an adult female hominid, oldest hominid found, lived 3.5 million years ago, named after the beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds |
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Domestication |
the taming of animals such as horses, dogs, goats, and pigs, like farming this came slowly |
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Sumerians |
one of the first groups of people to form a civilization, they had: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and improved technology |
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Persians |
idk!!!!!!!!! |
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Hittites |
a group of Indo-European speakers that occupied Anatolia: a.k.a. Asia Minor. huge peninsula in modern day Turkey that cuts into the Mediterranean and Black seas, a high plateau rich in timber and agriculture |
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