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| Australopithecus | Southern ape with near human-like characteristics |
| Cro-Magnon | Homo Sapien Sapien; closely resembles modern man, thinking man |
| hominid | any family of bi-pedal or two footed primate mammals like humans |
| homo sapien | modern man; wise man |
| neanderthal | prehistoric man with a caveman appearance and behavior; part of the homo sapien classification |
| agrarian | relating to land or concerning farmers of farming intrests |
| anthropology | study of human beings, especially their physical characteristics, origin and race |
| archaeologists | study ways of life of people through examination of their physical remains |
| artifact | man-made physical remains |
| Donald Johanson | found oldest complete human skeleton in Ethiopia and named her Lucy |
| fossil | trace or impression or the remains of a plant or animal of a past age preserved in the earth's crust |
| geography | study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them |
| historian | studies, researches and interprets how people lived based on artifacts and written records |
| Ice Age | period of time during prehistory that the earth cooled and formed glaciers |
| Lucy | nickname given to the fossil remains of the Australopithecus "southern ape" |
| Mary & Louis Leakey | famous archaeologists found pieces of bone fossils embedded in Olduvai gorge in Tanzania |
| migration | the act of moving or passing from one place to another |
| nomad | person or group wandering from place to place with no fixed home |
| paleolithic | period of time characterized by rough or crude tools; old stone age |
| polytheistic | the belief or worship in many gods |
| Prehistory | period of time before invented systems of writing |
| primary source | firsthand or eye-witness account of history; raw material |
| secondary source | interpretation of history from available primary sources |
| technology | refers to the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of goods, ideas and customs among different groups of people |
| clan | a group of families having the same ancestor |
| Neolithic | period of time characterized by smoth or POLISHED tools, NEW STONE AGE |
| revolution | a fundamental change |
| hunter-gatherers | humans who obtain their food by hunting wild animals and gather¬ing wild edible plants |
| Neolithic Age | the "new stone age," a period from about 8,000 to 4,000 years ago when humans used improved stone tools |
| Paleolithic Age | the "old stone age," a period from about 400,000 to 8,000 years ago when humans used rough stone tools |
| domesticate | process of taming plants and animals for domestic life |
| agrarian | relating to land or concerning farmers or farming interests |
| radioactive decay | the process by which some chemical elements give off energetic particles and change either into a different el-ement or a different form of the same element |
