Key vocab Human origin Flashcards

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Pre-history

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History before writing was invented 5,000 years ago

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Archeology

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The study of human history and prehistory

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Anthropology

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The study of what makes us humans

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Paleontology

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the study of the history of life on earth and fossil

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Geography

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the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments

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Carbon-Dating

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A scientific method that accurately determines age organic tools
Living/Dating

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Fossil

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The preserved remains of plants and animals

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Artifacts

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A remains, such as tools, Jewelry and humans made objects

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Migration

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Movement from one country, place or locality to another.
Why do human or animal migration? (for food)

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Paleolithic

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of or relating to the earliest period of stone age.

stone age, old, new

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Hunter/Gather

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any person who depends wild food and subsistence

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Nomad

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A person who move from place to place, setting down on a area

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Neolithic

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the critical transition is the result in the birth of agriculture.
The era when the panming plants and animals create permanent settlements.

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Agriculture

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The cultivation of the food and goods through framing.
The art and science of cultivating the soil,grow,crops,and raising livestock.

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Sedentary

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Living in a group permanently in one place
A person who remains, a resident of the place or region of his or her birth

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16
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Domestication

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the process of adopting wild plant and human
domestic species are raised food work clothes medicine, and many other uses

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Fertile crescent

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A crescent shaped region in Western Asia