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| Exact Timeline | Events are in order and show periods of time in between |
| Relative Timeine | Events are in order but simply shows what order the events came |
| Archeologist | study the remains of ancient human societies and cultures |
| Botanist | study ancient pollen found in ancient rock |
| Chemist | determine how old objects are |
| Geologist | describe and explain the changesin the earths surface over time |
| Linguist | study ancient languages and look for similarities |
| Paleoanthropologist | study the biological and cultural development of humans |
| Mary Leaky | Discovered oarly human footprints at Laetili in 1978 |
| Laetoli | The location of the discovery of footprints of ancient humans |
| James Mellart | Discovered Catal Hoyuk |
| Catal Hoyuk | A neolithic village in Turkey that had been buried for 9,000 years |
| Sir Charles Leonard Woolley | The most successful person to examine the ancient city of UR. |
| UR | An ancient city on Iraq that contained over 2,500 graves |
| Origin Story | the stories most culures used to explain how the species arose before the development of modern science. |
| interpret | to make meaning out of something |
| hypothesize | to make an educated guess |
| Taxonomy | the system of categorizing animals and plants |
| Carolus Linnaeus | invented taxonomy |
| Genus | The first part of a creatures scientific name |
| Species | The second part of a creatures scientific name |
| Lucy | australopithecus afarensis skeloton from 3.2 million years ago found in Ethiopia |
| Australopithecus afarensis | southern ape found in the Afar Triangle |
| Homo Habilis | Human with ability |
| Homo Erectus | Human who walks upright |
| Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis | Wise man from the Neander Valley in Germany |
| Homo Sapiens Sapiens | man the double wise |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age |
| Mesolithic | Middle Stone Age |
| Neolithic Revolution | the devolopment of agriculture |
| Scarce | hard to find |
| culivated | to grow |
| domesticated | calm and helthy animals for human use |
| agriculture | the cultivation of plants and the domestication of animals |
| obsidian | black volcanic glass |
| shrine | special rooms to honor gods and goddesses |
| hematite | a red ore used as makeup |
| sumeria | an area between the tigres and Euphrates Rivers |
| Euphrates River | A river in Iraq |
