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42 Cards in this Set
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hominids first appeared when
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4,400,000 BC
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homo habilis makes the first tool when
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2,500,000 BC
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homo sapiens appear
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200,000 BC
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invention of writing is when
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5,500 years ago
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time before people developed writing
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prehistory
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ancestors of humans
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hominids
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measure of how much radioactive carbon has decayed in organic remains..
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radiocarbon dating
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Lucy was found where? by who? when?
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Hadar, Ethiopia
Dr. Donald Johanson 1974 |
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"southern ape", 3.5 to 5.0 feet tall, walked on 2 legs, large faces, small brains, flat noses, large teeth
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Australopithecus
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homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapien
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"person with ability"
"person with walks upright" "person who thinks" |
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response to ice age
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migration, fire, clothing
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the skils and useful knowledge available to them for collecting material and making the objects necessary for survival
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technology
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paleolthic era
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2.5 million years ago to 1200 BC
homo habilis-made first tools |
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mesolithic era
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12000 BC to 8000 BC
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neolithic era start and end
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8000 to 5000 BC
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age of earth
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4-6 billion years ago
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age of cell life
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3 billion years ago
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age of dinosaurs
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240 million years ago
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dinosaurs disappeared
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6 million years ago
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date of first humans
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2.5 million years ago
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pre history
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time before writing
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AD=?
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anno domini (year of the lord)
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people who learn about people by excavating remains
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archeologists
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objects made by humans
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artifacts
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people who study fossils
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paleontologists
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where was lucy found
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olduvai gorge in Hadar, Ethiopia
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name 3 things homo habilis did
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crude stone tools, limited speech, food gathering and scavanging
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name 4 thigs homo erectus did
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fire, tools, hunting, language
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name 5 things neanderthals did
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spear points, caves and shelters, planned buriels, care for weaker in community
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name 4 things cromagnons did
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more tools, pottery, cooperative hunt, cave paintings
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which homo was first to migrate
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homo erectus
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did neanderthals believe in afterlife
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yes
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we are all desendents of...
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cromagnons
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who first used pottery,who wre the first to do cave paintings
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cromagnons
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-prosperous and skilled; 60,000 people, volcanic rock, decorated their walls, prayed to several different gods
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catal Huyuk
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what caused villages to grow into cities
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written language
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name 5 places of civilization
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tigris and euphrates in iraq, nile in africa, indus river valley in india, huange he in china
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6 charachteristics of civilizations
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specialized labor, social class, centers of trade, written language, government, organized religion
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study of tracks and traces left in caves by humans or other animals
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ichnology
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the first culture of the upper paleolithic time period (homo sapiens)
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aurigriacian period
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crystal that forms in caves because of the evaporation of water charged with carbonates
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calcite
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2 things they found suprising about Pont D'Arc
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art skills and animals painted
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