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| Social Studies | the body of knowledge that relates to man as a member of society or a component of society. Some related topics are: economics, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and archaeology. |
| Economics | deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth and the means of supplying the material needs of mankind |
| History | a record account, usually written and in chronological order of past events |
| Historian | a person whose main task is to interpret history |
| Sociology | deals with the origin and evoloution of human society and social phenomena, the progress of civilization and the laws controlling human institutions and functions |
| Anthropology | concerned with the physical, social, and material, and cultural development of man, his origin, evolution, geographic distribution, ethnology, and communal forms |
| Political Science | the study of the form and principles of civil government |
| Archaeology | a) the study of history from the remains of early human cultures as discovered chiefly by systematic excavations b) the study of evidence left by early people |
| Culture | the entire way of life a people has developed |
| Artifact | man-made or man influenced object |
| Technology | the means by which material things are produced |
| Dig | an archaeological excavation |
| Primative | the earliest known, not changed |
| Preliterate | a culture lacking or pre-dating the existance of a written language |
| Folkway | a norm looked upon by the members of a society as not being extremely important and that may be violated without severe punishment |
| More | a norm looked upon by the members of a society as being extremely important and when violated results in severe punishment |
| Graph | displays the proportions between two or more items |
| Carbon Dating | determines the age of bones, wood, and other materials that were once living things |
