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Flashcards by msandovalbarrios, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by msandovalbarrios
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| Question | Answer |
| 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. |
| Cro-Magon |
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