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Flashcards by ariel.shaw, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ariel.shaw
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| Question | Answer |
| Prehistory | History before written records. |
| Archaeology | The study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind. |
| Artifacts | Man made objects. |
| anthropology | The study of human life and culture. |
| Fossils | The remains or imprints left behind from organisms. |
| Radiocarbon dating | A method establishing a organisms age by measuring the amount of carbon-14 remaining in its body. |
| Hominid | Early humans and creatures that walk upright. |
| Olduvai Gorge | Ancient hominid archaeological site in Tanzania excavated by Leakey. |
| Lucy | Discovered in 1974, nicknamed after the song "Lucy in the sky of diamonds" |
| Australopithecus | Evolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago |
| Ardie | The oldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million years old discovered in Africa in 1992. |
| Homo habilis | 2-1.6 million years old,knew how to make tools |
| Homo erectus | Upright man, 1.9 million years ago |
| Homo sapiens | "Modern human" |
| Neanderthals | During the ice age |
| Cro-magnon | A word used to describe the first early modern humans |
| "Out of Africa" Theory | We came from Africa,and moved around the world |
| Old stone age | Early humans started making stone tools. |
| Lascaux cave | Complex caves located in southwestern France that contain drawings left behind |
| Neolithic Revolution | The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. |
| Domestication | To tame domestic animals |
| Catal huyuk | A very large Neolithic and Calcolithic poro-city settlement in eastern Anatolia |
| Culture | Peoples unique way of life. |
| Mary & Louis Leakey | Found prehistoric footprints then found the skeletons of two homo habilis in Africa. |
| Donald johanson | In 1974 he discovered the "Lucy" skeleton. |
| Australopithecines | NIckname for lucy |
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