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15 Cards in this Set
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What do historians call the period before the development of writing?
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Prehistory
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Experts who study the physical features, behavior, and developmet of hominids
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Anthropologists
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Experts who study prehistoric fossil remains
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Paleontologists
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Any object made or shaped by human hands
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Artifact
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A scientific technique for dating the remains of organic material
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Radiocarbon dating
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Location of the earliest evidence of human ancestors
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Ethiopia in East Africa
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Expert who discovered "Lucy"
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Dr. Donald C. Johanson
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Latin classification of the first prehuman hominids
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Australopithecus
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Groups who move constantly in search of food
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nomads
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The earliest species of the human genus
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Homo habilis
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All people alive today belong to this species of humans
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Homo sapiens
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The earliest period of The Stone Age
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Paleolithic
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The period that date from 12,000 B.C. to 8,000 B.C.
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Mesolithic
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First species of humans to migrate from Africa
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Homo erectus
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Anthropologists who studied early humans in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
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Mary and Loius Leakey
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