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24 Cards in this Set
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History that happened before the invention of writing
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Prehistory
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Scientists uncover facts about the past by digging or doing what
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Excavating
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What are the people alled who locate and study things left behind by people
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Archaeologists
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What is the name of people who study fossils of once-living things
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Paleoanthropologist
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Remains of once living things
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Fossils
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People first appeared on what continent more than 3 million years ago
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Africa
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What did the first people eat?
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Plants and meat left behind by lion and leopard kills
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What did the first people make their tools from
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stones
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Who came first and were handy with tools?
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Homo habilis
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What came after homo habilis and tamed fire?
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Homo erectus
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People first appeared on what continent more than 3 million years ago
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Africa
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What did the first people eat?
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Plants and meat left behind by lion and leopard kills
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What did the first people make their tools from
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stones
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Who came first and were handy with tools?
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Homo habilis
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What came after homo habilis and tamed fire?
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Homo erectus
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Who came after homoerectus and resembled modern man
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Homosapiens
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What are small groups of people who lived together?
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Bands
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What are human-made objects left behind?
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Artifacts
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What did the archaeologists use to test how hold fossils are if they are 50,000 years old or younger?
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Radiocarbon dating
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Bands moved from place to place which is also called what?
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Migrating
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What is a long period of bitter cold when glaciers covered the earth -- more dry land was exposed
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Ice age
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Early people walked and crossed these things that are now covered by water
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land bridges
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Did early people farm? If not, what did they do?
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No. They hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food
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What is a way of life that sets groups of people apart from other groups?
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Culture
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