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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
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