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16 Cards in this Set
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Hominid
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A human-like creature that walked upright.
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Olduval Gorge
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East African area where Louis and Mary Leaky found the Homo Erectus skeleton.
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Australopithecus
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The first of the human like creatures.
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Homo Habilis
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Human who made tools.
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Homo Erectus
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Human who walked upright.
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Homo Sapien
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Human who thinks (Neanderthal).
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Homo Sapien Sapien
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Human who could think and reason (Cro-Magnum).
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Paleolithic Age
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The old stone age.
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Hunter-Gathers
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Nomadic clans that followed the herds to hunt their food, the women gathered grains, root vegetables, and medicinal herbs.
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Nomadic
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People who move from place to place.
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Archaeologist
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Scientist who studies the past through studying society though artifacts.
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Anthropologist
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Study of human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils.
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Ice Age
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100,000 to 8,000 years ago when 80% of the earth was covered with glaciers.
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Neanderthal
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Skeletal remains of a homo sapien found in Germany’s Neander Valley.
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Carbon Dating
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Measuring the amount of radioactive carbon left in something tells its age.
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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DNA
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