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14 Cards in this Set
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History |
The study of past events and changes in development. Transmission of cultural practices. |
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stone age |
historical period when tools were produced from stone and other non-metallic materials |
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Paleolithic |
The Old Stone Age-Around 8000 BCE (10,000 years ago) associated with the evolution of humans and the use of stone tools. |
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culture |
socially transmitted actions and expressions. Material-dwellings, clothing, tools, skills Non-material-language, beliefs, values |
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neolithic |
The New Stone Age-3000 years ago after the last ice age/hunters and gatherers and the beginning of agriculture. |
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foragers |
people who hunted and gathered food Kalahari Desert in south Africa Ituri Forest of Central Asia |
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Women |
did most of the hunting and gathering lost some of there social standing with agriculture |
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Men |
hunted and farmed |
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Agricultural Revolution |
gradual change from hunting and gathering to food production. 8000-2000 BCE |
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Pastoralism |
herding livestock, relied on what the animal produced rather than meat. |
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Holocene Period |
period beginning around 9000 BCE that ended the last ice age and triggered the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture and pastoralism |
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Megaliths |
very large stones used to construct religious and ceremonial structures by early food producing societies. |
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Jericho |
Neolithic t own with early agriculture located on the west bank of the Jordan River (Israel and Palestine) |
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Catal Huyuk |
Neolithic town with early agriculture located in central Anatolia (Modern Turkey) |
