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| Question | Answer |
| Prehistory | history before written (recorded) records |
| Archaeology | the study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind. |
| Artifacts | any man made object, item of cultural or historical interest. |
| Anthropology | study of humans past and present |
| Fossils | geological remains of plants and animals |
| Radiocarbon dating | measuring how much radioactive carbon is present in carbon based remains to make a guess about their age |
| Hominid | any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae, including all species of the genrea Homo and Australopithecus. |
| Olduvai Gorge | a ravine in northern Tanzania west of Mount Kilimanjor, it contains archaeological sites rich in fossil and Paleolithic implements. |
| Paleolithic Age | the cultural period of the Stone Age about 2.5 to 2 million years ago, marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. |
| "Lucy" | is one of the oldest and best-preserved skeletons of a hominid. |
| Australopithecus | a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics. |
| "Ardie" | oldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million years old discovered in Africa in 1992. |
| "Homo habilis" | an extinct specie of upright East African hominid having some advanced human like characteristics. |
| "Homo erectus" | an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as, Pithecanthropus erectus |
| "Homo sapiens" | the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong. |
| Neanderthals | an extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age. |
| Cro-Magnon | name that has been used to describe the first early modern humans. |
| "Out of Africa" theory | anatomically modern humans, or homo sapiens. |
| Paleolithic Age | the cultural period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. |
| Lascaux cave | a cave in Lascaux France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times. |
| Archaeologist | specially trained scientist who work like detectives to discover the story of prehistory peoples. |
| Neolithic Revolution | was a fundamental change in the way people lived, the shift from hunting and gathering to agricultural led to permanent settlements, the establishment of social classes, and the eventual rise of civilization. |
| Domestication | to convert animals and plants to domestic uses. (to tame especially by generations of breeding) |
| Catalhyuk | a 32 acre Neolithic site in south-central Turkey. |
| Culture | a way of life a group of people (behaviors, beliefs, values) |
| Mary and Louis Leaky | anthropologist who first found prehistoric footprints, then skeletons of homo habilis in Africa. |
| Donald Johanson | in 1974 she discovered the skeleton remains of "Lucy" |
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