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| anthropologist | scientist who studies past human or perhuman civilizations; studies bones and fossils of hominids |
| archeologist | scientist who studies life and culture of ancient peoples by excaviating ancient living sites, unearths and studies artifacts |
| Homo Sapiens | person who thinks, wise man, people who lived from 20,000 years ago to today |
| Cro-Magnon | people who lived 40,000 years ago to today. We are their descendants |
| Neanderthal | people who lived from 2,000,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age, from 2,000,000 years ago to 12,000 BC |
| Mesolithic | Middle Stone Age, from 12,000 - 8,000 BC |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age, from 8,000 - 5,000 BC |
| nomad | a person without a permanent home who moves about constantly in search of food |
| culture | the ideas, customs, skills, and arts of a given people at a given time |
| prehistory | the time before recorded history, as learned from archeology |
| artifact | an object made by humans, such as a tool, ornament, weapon, or pottery, that has historical or archeological significance |
| fossil | remains of an animal or plant |
| bronze | reddish-brown metal made by mixing melted copper and tin |
| technology | the skills and knowledge available to a people |
| economy | a system of producing, distributing and consuming wealth to meet people's needs |
| artisan | a skilled craftworker |
| radiocarbon dating | technique for dating artifacts by measuring the age of once-living material by calculating the amount of radioactive carbon present in it |
| myth | a traditional story that explains natural phenomena, such as the origin of a people |
| civilization | highly organized society marked by knowledge of a written language, the arts, sciences and government |
