ch.1 prehistory voc.

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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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