| A | B |
|---|
| domestication | to tame or take control of ? such as an animal |
| excavation | to dig out something |
| fossil | the remains of something which lived a long time ago |
| geologists | people who deal with rocks |
| historical era | a period of time |
| homo sapiens | early men .. Lived around 200,000 years ago |
| Iron Age | 1000 BC |
| Lucy | early skeleton ? 1.8 million years ago .. People walked on legs |
| Mesoamericans | people who lived in Mexico and Central America around 7000 BC |
| Neanderthals | lived in Europe around 100,000 BC |
| Neolithic Age | New Stone Age [8,000 BCE - 4,000 BCE] people start to settle down and farm |
| non-verbal communication | getting a thought / idea across without speaking |
| oral tradition | things passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth |
| out of Africa theory | early men & women migrated from Africa to Europe .. And replaced them |
| Paleolithic Age | Old Stone Age [2 million years ago to 13,000 BCE] people survived by hunting and food gathering, migratory |
| personal correspondence | a letter or memo a person writes (themselves) ? no one does it for them |
| pre-civilization | Stone Age - an historical era dating back to around 2.5 million years ago to 4000 BCE |
| prehistory | time / history before writing was developed |
| primary resource | 1st hand account .. You see it / witness it |
| radio carbondating | a way of determining how old something is ? done by measuring carbon ? |
| relics | another term for "artifacts" ? old coins, ancient hunting tools, knives ? etc. |
| remnants | remains of something |
| Stonehenge | big rocks laid out in a circular pattern in England during the Neolithic Era ? shows knowledge of astronomy, geometry & physics ? a sign of a civilization |
