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Flashcards by victoria russ, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by victoria russ
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| history before written records | Prehistory |
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Artifacts-man made objects such as tools, pottery, weapons, jewelry, etc |
| a people's unique way of life | Culture |
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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. |
| The study of human life and culture | Anthropology Anthropologists- scientists who study cultures past or present |
| Language, religious beliefs, art, tools & technology, family, class & social structure, government & laws, social customs, economic systems | Components of Culture |
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Hominids-early humans and creatures that walk upright |
| anthropologists who first found prehistoric footprints, then skeletons of homo habilis in Africa | Mary & Louis Leakey |
| In 1974 he discovered the skeletal remains of an adult female hominid who lived about 3.5 million years ago | Donald Johanson |
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Discovered in Africa in 1974, the oldest hominid found to that date; nicknamed after a Beatles song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
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Lucy |
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"Ardie"- discovered in Africa in 1992; the oldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million old |
| Old Stone Age lasted from about 2.5 million years to 8,000 BC; early humans made tools of stone | Old Stone Age |
| New Stone Age; began about 8,000-3,000 BC; early humans who lived during this time learned to make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals | Neolithic Age |
| name for the Lucy species; lived 4 million to 1 million; skeletal remains found in southern and eastern Africa; first "human-like" creature | Australopithecines (aka Australopiticus) |
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First to make stone tools; name means "man of skill"
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Homo habilis |
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"upright man"; believed to more intelligent and more adaptable than homo habilis; first to use fire
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Homo Erectus |
| The ways humans apply knowledge, tools, & inventions to meet their needs | Technology |
| "wise men"; the species name for modern humans | homo sapiens |
| sub species of homo sapiens; who lived 200,000-30,000 BC; first have ritual burials; DNA test on skeleton shows that they were NOT ancestors of modern humans |
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| They lived from 40,000-8,000 BC; fully modern humans, used spoken language, planned their hunts, and created art |
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| People who move from place to place foraging or searching for new sources of food | Nomads |
| Depends on hunting animals and collecting plants for food | Hunter-gathers |
| Another name for the Agricultural Revolution; one of the greatest breakthroughs in history; shift from hunting-gathering to farming | Neolithic Revolution |
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Catal Huyuk; the largest village of the Neolithic Age; discovered in 1955 in what is today Turkey; home to 6,000 inhabitants |
| farming technique that involves cutting down all trees & plants, then burning them. The ash is fertilizer to the crops that are planted. | Slash and burn farming |
| Characteristics of life in the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) | 1. hunter/gatherers 2. family based clans 3. Nomadic lifestyle based on availability of resources 4. Simple tools & weapons made of stone |
| Out of Africa Theory theory that our prehistoric ancestors came from Africa. | |
| the preserved remains or impressions of a living organism such as plant, animal, or insect. |
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