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Chapter.1 Prehistory Vocabulary
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- 1PrehistoryHistory before written records.
- 2ArchaeologyThe study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind.
- 3ArtifactsMan made objects.
- 4anthropologyThe study of human life and culture.
- 5FossilsThe remains or imprints left behind from organisms.
- 6Radiocarbon datingA method establishing a organisms age by measuring the amount of carbon-14 remaining in its body.
- 7HominidEarly humans and creatures that walk upright.
- 8Olduvai GorgeAncient hominid archaeological site in Tanzania excavated by Leakey.
- 9LucyDiscovered in 1974, nicknamed after the song "Lucy in the sky of diamonds"
- 10AustralopithecusEvolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago
- 11ArdieThe oldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million years old discovered in Africa in 1992.
- 12Homo habilis2-1.6 million years old,knew how to make tools
- 13Homo erectusUpright man, 1.9 million years ago
- 14Homo sapiens"Modern human"
- 15NeanderthalsDuring the ice age
- 16Cro-magnonA word used to describe the first early modern humans
- 17"Out of Africa" TheoryWe came from Africa,and moved around the world
- 18Old stone ageEarly humans started making stone tools.
- 19Lascaux caveComplex caves located in southwestern France that contain drawings left behind
- 20Neolithic RevolutionThe shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture.
- 21DomesticationTo tame domestic animals
- 22Catal huyukA very large Neolithic and Calcolithic poro-city settlement in eastern Anatolia
- 23CulturePeoples unique way of life.
- 24Mary & Louis LeakeyFound prehistoric footprints then found the skeletons of two homo habilis in Africa.
- 25Donald johansonIn 1974 he discovered the "Lucy" skeleton.
- 26AustralopithecinesNIckname for lucy
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