Chapter 1.1 Vocab

Question 1

anthropologist

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Anthropologists are people that practice anthropology, which is the study of humanity. Basically they want to figure out what makes humans human.

Question 2

Archeologist

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1 : the scientific study of material remains (as fossil relics, artifacts, and monuments) of past human life and activities.

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Artifact

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an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest

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Australopithecus

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a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits ( circa 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa.

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Cro magnon

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A hominid of a tall erect race of the Upper Paleolithic known from skeletal remains found chiefly in southern France and classified as the same species (Homo sapiens) as present-day humans.

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Culture

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the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

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Domestication of animals

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Domestication is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised

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Egalitarian

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of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

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Foraging

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Foraging is searching for wild food resources. It affects an animal’s fitness because it plays an important role in an animal’s ability to survive and reproduce.

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Hominids

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a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors

Great Apes

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Homo Erectus

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Homo erectus is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.9 million years ago and the most recent to 70,000 years ago.

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Homo Habilis

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Homo habilis is a species of the tribe Hominini, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period, which lived between roughly 2.8 and 1.5 million years ago.

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Homo sapien sapien

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Homo sapien sapien is the binomial nomenclature for the only extant human species. Homo is the human genus, which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid

Question 14

Homo Sapien

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species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.

Question 15

Lucy

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Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.

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Neanderthal

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an extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between circa 120,000–35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges

Question 17

Neolithic age

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The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4,500 and 2,000 BC.

Question 18

Nomads

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a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.

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Paleolithic age

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adjective. Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools, about 2.4 million years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Period, about 15,000 to 11,500 years ago in western Asia and southern Europe. noun. The Paleolithic Period. Also called Old Stone Age.

Question 20

Paleontologist

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A paleontologist is a scientist who studies fossils.

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Pastoralism

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Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, and sheep.

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Prehistory

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the period of time before written records

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Specialization

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Specialization is a method of production where a business, area or economy focuses on the production of a limited scope of products or services to gain greater degrees of productive efficiency within an overall system.

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Surplus

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an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.

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Technology

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the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.