World History Chapter 1-1

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prehistory

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the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word

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archaeology

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is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material

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artifact

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any object made or modified by a human culture

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anthropology

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he social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings

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fossil

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the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil

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hominid

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an adjective referring to primate human ancestors and the rest of the human line or family, starting from Australopithecus

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Australopithecus

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a collective name for the earliest known hominids emerging about 5 million years ago in East Africa.

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Homo sapiens sapiens

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the last stage of evolution in our genus, Homo. The species that is modern humans.

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"out-of-Africa" theory

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asserts that modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa, migrated into Eurasia and replaced all populations which had descended from Homo erectus.

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theory

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An expectation of what should happen, barring unforeseen circumstances;

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survive

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ontinue to live through hardship or adversity

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Olduvai Gorge

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gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains

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Paleolithic Age

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second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC