SS Flashcards
To memorize words and definitions
Archaeologists
A scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts
Artifact
Usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing human work and repressing a culture or a stage in the development of a culture.
B.C.E.
Before the common era (before the birth of Christ).
Catalhoyuk
Neolithic site in present day Turkey
fossil
remains,impression,or trace of a living thing of a farmer geologic age,as a skeleton,footprint.
C.E.
common era:the global standard used to count years based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of chirst
Migration
movement from one country,peace,or locality to another.
Neolithic
later part of the stone age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements.
Neolithic revolution
a fundamental change in the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture led to permanent
nomadic
having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food,water,and grazing land
obsidian
a dark natural glass that when hot molten or semi-fluid rock : from a volcano cools
paleolithic
early phase of the stone age,lasting about 2.5 million years,when primitive stone implants were used
sedentary
staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places
tribal
a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language,customs and beliefs and leader
turning point
the point at which a very significant change occurs