SS Flashcards

To memorize words and definitions

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Archaeologists

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A scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts

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Artifact

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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.

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B.C.E.

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Before the common era (before the birth of Christ).

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Catalhoyuk

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Neolithic site in present day Turkey

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fossil

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remains,impression,or trace of a living thing of a farmer geologic age,as a skeleton,footprint.

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C.E.

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common era:the global standard used to count years based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of chirst

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Migration

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movement from one country,peace,or locality to another.

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Neolithic

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later part of the stone age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements.

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Neolithic revolution

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a fundamental change in the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture led to permanent

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nomadic

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having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food,water,and grazing land

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obsidian

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a dark natural glass that when hot molten or semi-fluid rock : from a volcano cools

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paleolithic

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early phase of the stone age,lasting about 2.5 million years,when primitive stone implants were used

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sedentary

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staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places

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tribal

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a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language,customs and beliefs and leader

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turning point

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the point at which a very significant change occurs

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