Chapter One Vocab

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Paleolithic

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The period of the earliest and longest stage of human cultural development, lasting approximately from 2million BCE to 10,000 BCE; also known as old Stone Age

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Hominids

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Humans and their two legged prehuman predecessors

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Cultural adaptation

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The process by which hominids used their intellectual and social skills to adjust to their surroundings and improve their chances for survival

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Cultures

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Unique combinations of customs, beliefs, and practices- including languages, arts, rituals, institutions, and technologies- that distinguished societies for each other.

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Great Ice Age

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A immense stretch of time (roughly 2 million BCE to 8,000 BCE) marked by frigid glacial stages when enormous ice masses called glaciers spread across much of the globe.

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Homo sapiens

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“Wise humans” a term designating the species that includes all modern people.

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Neanderthals

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A group of large-brained hominids whose remains were first discovered in 1856 in Germany’s Neander valley, who existed roughly 200,000-30,000 years ago

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Race

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A concept that divides human beings into categories based on external characteristics such a skin color