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| Prehistory | The period of time before written record |
| Artifacts | a human made object such as a tool, weapon, or piece of jewelry. |
| Anthropolgy | the study of human kind |
| Culture | a people's unique way of life, as shown by tools, customs, arts, and ideas. |
| Hominid | a member of a biological group including human beings and related species that walk upright. |
| Paleolithic Age | prehistoric peroiod that lasted from about 2.5 million years to 8000 BC during which people used crude stone tools and weapons- also known as the OLD stone age. |
| Neolithic Age | a prehistoric period that began about 8000BC and in some areas ended as early as 3000BC during which people learned to polish stone, tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals- the New Stone Age. |
| Neolithic Revoultion | the major change in human life caused by the beginnings of farming-shift from food gathering to food production. |
| Domesticate | taming of animals for human use. |
| Polytheisitic | a belief in many gods. |
| Cultural diffusion | the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another. |
| City | center of trade for a larger area. |
| Technology | the ways in which people apply knowledge, tools, and inventions. |
| Archaeology | the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. |
