Pre-Historical Chapter Flashcards
Hominids
A term scientists apply to human beings and their two-legged pre-human predecessors
Paleolithic
Old Stone Age
Cultural Adaptation
The process of using their intellectual and social skills to adjust to their surroundings and improve their chances for survival.
Culture
Unique combinations of customs, beliefs, and practices-including languages, arts, rituals, institutions, and technologies-that distinguished these societies from each other.
Foragers
Those who subsist by gathering wild plant foods and hunting wild animals
Kinship
An extended family comprising grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives-they were also bound together by familial obligations and affections
Race
Divides human beings into categories based on external characteristics, skin color in particular, relies on relatively insignificant distinctions.
Neolithic
New Stone Age. People not only developed better tools but also domesticated plants and animals,cultivated crops, herded livestock, and established permanent settlements.
Pastoral Nomads
People who raise livestock for subsistence and move occasionally with their herds in search of fresh grazing grounds.
Patriarchal
Dominated by males who served as heads of household and as community leaders
Matriarchal
Society that is dominated by women who are the heads and leaders of the community
Civilization
A term applied to very large, complex societies,or regional groups of complex societies, with widely shared or similar customs, institutions, and beliefs.
