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17 Cards in this Set
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Archaeologist |
a person who studies and dig up prehistoric things..Stone Age |
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Artifacts |
an object made by a person being typically an item of cultural or historical interest. |
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Paleolithic |
the Stone Age lasting about 2.5 million years when primitive stone implements were used. |
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Neolithic |
when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed |
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Tool |
a device used to do things easier |
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Nomads |
a member of a pak having no permanent abode and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock |
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Cave art |
painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings mainly of prehistoric origin to some 40,000 years ago |
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Settlement |
an official agreement intended to resolve a dispute or conflict |
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culture |
the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively |
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Domestication |
to convert animals plants to domestic uses tame to tame an animal especially by generations of breeding to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild. |
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Hominid |
a primate of a family Hominidae that includes humans and their fossil ancestors. |
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Hunter |
a person or animal that hunts |
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Woolly Mammoth |
a mammoth that was adapted to the cold periods of the Pleistocene, with a long shaggy coat, small ears, and a thick layer of fat. Individuals are sometimes found frozen in the permafrost of Siberia |
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Surplus |
an amount of something left over when requirements have been met an excess of production or supply over demand. |
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Quern |
a simple hand mill for grinding grain typically consisting of two circular stones the upper of which is rotated or rubbed to and fro on the lower one. |
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Fertile Crescent |
The Fertile Crescent is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt. |
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Catal Huyuk |
is an archaeological site in what is now southcentral Turkey. Along with Jericho, it's considered one of the oldest cities in the world, dating from almost 7500 BC. |
