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One who studies past societies through an analysis of the items people left behind them.
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Archaeologist
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One who studies human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils
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Anthropologist
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A remnant or impression of an organism from a past geologic age that has been preserved in the earths crust
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Fossil
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Tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings, and household items left behind by early people
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Artifact
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The way of liife a people follows.
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Culture
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Humans and other human like creatures that walk upright
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Hominids
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Neolithic Revolution
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the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of good to the keeping of animals and the growing of food
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Domestication
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adaptation for human use
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Australopithecine
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"Southern Apes" the earliest humanlike creatures that flourished in eastern and Southern Africa three to four million years ago
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Homo Erectus
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upright human being a species that emerged around 1.5 million years ago and marked a second stage of early human development
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Type of Homo Sapiens that lived in Europe and the Middle East between 100,000 to 30,000 BC
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Neanderthals
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"wise human being" a species that emerged around 250,000 years ago and marked a third stage in human development
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Homo Sapiens
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"wise, wise human being" a species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; they were the first anatomically modern humans
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens
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During Stone Age women gathered nuts and berries and men hunted large animals
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Hunter-Gatherers
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A person who moves from place to place
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Nomads
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cutting and burning of the harvested crops. Use the ashes as fertalizer
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Slash & Burn
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Located in Modern Day Turkey, farming village, 32 acres, 6,000 inhabitants
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Catal Huyuk
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Female Hominid found by Donald Johnson and Tom Gray on November 24, 1974
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Lucy
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Discovered the worlds earliest known family.
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Leakey Family
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Discovered Australopithecines, or Southern Apes
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Donald Johanson
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Early fossil hominid, approximately 7 million years old from the Miocene. Fossil Skull
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Toumai
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Dis-habitation of culture in different or to different groups
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Cultural Diffusion
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Multiregional Hypothesis
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DNA evidence traces the female line back to 7 origional sisters
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"Out of Africa" hypothesis
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Before Christ
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B.C.
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Before the Common Era
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B.C.E.
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Latin Word - anno Domini, in the year of the Lord
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A.D.
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After Christ Era
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A.C.E.
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Common Era
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C.E.
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the years 100 to 1 B.C.
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1st Century
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21st Century
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the art of creating a nostalgic picture of harmony and innocence of the life of rural people in a perfect natural environment.
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Pastoralism
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A scientist who studies palentology, studying fossils.
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Paleontologist
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the ability of human beings to make things that sustain them and give them some control over their environment
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Technology
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The earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone tools.
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Stone Age
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Culture, Communication, Economy
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Specialization
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The earliest known species of the genus Homo; that is the first human species
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Homo Habilis
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