Ch.1 Vocabulary 9/02/15

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Prehistory	The period of time before written records.
Archaeology	The study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind.
Archaeologists	Specially trained scientists who work like detectives to uncover the story of prehistoric peoples.
Artifacts	objects made by humans.
Anthropology/Anthropologists	scientists who study cultures past or present
Fossils	Rocklike remains of biological organisms.
Radiocarbon Dating	Used to determine age.
Donald Johanson	In 1974 he discovered the skeletal remains of an adult female hominid who lived about 3.5 million years ago.
Hominid	extinct species of Homo
Olduvai Gorge	Olduvai Gorge in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania was excavated by Louis and Mary Leakey in the mid-1950s. The group of sites, is nine miles long and 350 feet deep and includes almost 2 million years of occupation.
Lucy	Discovered in Africa in 1974, the oldest hominid found to that date
Australopithecines/ Australopithecus	an extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago.
Ardie	"Adrie" - discovered in Africa in 1992; the oldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million old
"Homo Habilis"	First to make stone tools, the name means "man of skill"
Old Stone Age	Old Stone Age lasted from about 2.5 million years to 8,000 BC. Early humans made tools of stone
Neolithic age	new stone age; began about 8,000- 3,000 BC; early humans who lived during this time learned to make pottery, grow plants
homo erectus	believed to more intelligent and more adaptable than homo habilis. The first ones to use fire. "upright man"
Homo Sapiens	the species name for the modern humans. "wise men"
Neanderthals	during this time people learn how to make poetry, grow crops, and raise animals.
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