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| Otzi the Iceman | Carbon dating confirmed that _____ died 5,300 years ago |
| Radiocarbon Dating | _____ was used to determine Lucy lived 3.2 million years ago |
| Paleolithic Age | Period that lasted from about 2.5 million years ago until approximately 10,000 B.C. before people learned to grow crops known as the Old Stone Age |
| Neolithic Age | Period that lasted from approximately 10,000 B.C. until approximately 3,000 B.C. after people learned to grow crops known as the New Stone Age |
| Nomads | People who move from place to place chasing animals for food |
| Ice Age | Period where the earth cooled and thick sheets of ice covered much of the globe |
| Farming | ____ allowed people to settle in permanent villages, rather than chase food |
| Defrosted | Researchers____ Otzi's body in order to perform medical experiments and other research on the body |
| Arrow | Radiologist Paul Gostner noticed a/n ______ in Ozti's back that was probably the cause of his death |
| Pollen | Researchers noticed layers of____ inside Ozti's intestine that suggested that he went up and down the mountain |
| Cultivated Grain | _____was found inside Ozti's stomach showing that Ozti interacted with farmers |
| Inbex Meat | ____ was found inside Otzi's stomach showing that he hunted wild animals from the mountains |
| DNA | Scientists hope ____ could tell them the Iceman's eye color, medical history and genetic mutations |
| Prehistory | Period of time before written records |
| History | The record of events since people first developed writing, about 5,000 years ago |
| Excavate | Remove earth carefully and systematically from an area in order to find remains |
| Fossils | Preserved remains of plants and animals |
| Artifacts | Human made objects |
| Historian | Person who researches, studies, and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it |
| Primary Sources | Original documents and objects which were created at the time under study |
| Secondary Sources | Address or analyze events, people, works, or topics after the fact by someone without first-hand experience |
| Archaeological Sites | Places wherre these materials are found are called |
| Remote Sensing | Techniques and tools that allow archaeologists(and others) to probe a site without physically disturbing it. |
| Survey | Archaeologists actively search areas for sites in areas that were likely to support human populations |
| Erofacts | Evidence for the local environment and resources being used such as snail shells, seeds, and butchered bones |
| Tools | Archaeological remains often include tools for hunting, farming, cooking, craft making, building houses or warfare |
| Archaeologists | Scientists who excavate ancient settlements |
| Lucy | About 40 percent of the fossil remains of___, perhaps the world's most famous early human ancestor, were found |
| Culture | Way of life of a group of people |
