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| Question | Answer |
| Prehistory | History before writing |
| Archaeology | Study of ancient and recent human past through material remain |
| Artifacts | Tools, Weapons, Pots, |
| Anthropology | Study humans , & Culture |
| Fossil | early humans dead bodies |
| Radiocarbon Dating | Used to determine age |
| Olduvai Gorge | gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains. |
| Lucy | Nickname for one of the most complete skeletons of an early ancestor of humans ever found. Discovered in Ethiopia by Don Johanson, Tim White, and Tom Gray, Lucy lived approximately three million years ago. She walked upright, and anthropologists estimate that she was about twenty years old when she died. Lucy is considered one of the great finds of anthropology. |
| Australopithecus | an extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago |
| Ardie | oldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million years old discovered in Africa |
| Homo Habilis | an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans. |
| Homo Erectus | an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face. |
| Homo Sapiens | an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face. |
| Neanderthals | an unenlightened or ignorant person; barbarian. |
| Cro - Magon | an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm). |
| Palenolithic Age | ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools |
| Lascaux Cave | Early humans made pics on the caves |
| Neolithic Revolution | was a fundamental change in the way people lived |
| Domestication | live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild. |
| Catalhuyuk | a 32-acre Neolithic site in south-central Turkey, dated c6500–5500 b.c., one of the first true cities, characterized by a fully developed agriculture and extensive trading, particularly in obsidian, and having frescoed temples, mud-brick fortifications and houses, and mother-goddess figures. |
| Culture | he arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
| Hominid | all human & human - like creatures |
| Out Of Africa | Africa between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, and later spread to the rest of the world |
| Mary & Louis Leaky's | Anthropologist, who found the first prehistoric footprints, than skeleton |
| Donald Johanson | In 1974, discovered the Lucy Skeleton |
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