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Flashcards by ejimenezward, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ejimenezward
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| Question | Answer |
| prehistory-history before written(recorded)records | |
| Archaeology-man made objects. | |
| artifacts-an object made by a human. | |
| anthropology-the study of humankind | |
| fossils-the remains of a dead organisms | |
| radiocarbon dating | a determination of a date or time |
| hominid | a primate that is humans and also include fossils. |
| olduvai gorge | a gorge in tanzania in which is located a site containing human skeletal and culture remains. |
| lucy | is an english and french feminine given name derived from latin. |
| australopithecus | was once considered to be ancestral to the genus homo. |
| ardie | old skeleton of an early human 4.4 million years old discovered in africa in 1992. |
| culture | peoples way of life |
| homo habilis | an extinct of upright east african hominid having some advanced humanlike |
| homo erectus | species of human lineage |
| homo sapiens | the speices of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong |
| Neanderthals | an extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age euroupe between 120,000-35,000 years ago. |
| cro-magnon | describe the first early modern humans. |
| out of africa'' theory | in africa 200,000 and 100,000 yeras ago |
| paleolithic age-the cultural period of the stone age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago. | |
| lascaux cave-is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings | |
| neolithic revolution-a fundamental change in the way people lived. | |
| domestication-a population of organisms in order to accentuate traits that are desirable to the cultivator or tamer. | |
| catalhuyuk-was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. |
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