SS Vocabulary 2
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- revolution
- changes that greatly affect many areas of life
- technology
- tools and methods to help humans perform tasks
- domesticate
- tame animals + plants for human use
- specialization
- development of different kinds of jobs
- artifact
- weapons, tools and other things made by humans
- fossil
- traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock
- archaeology
- study of historic or prehistoric people and their cultures
- anthropology
- science that deals with the orgins, physical and cutural development, biological characteristics and social customs and beliefs of human kind
- prehistory
- time before people developed writing
- Paleolithic
- people who adapted to their environment and invented many tools to help them survive, it means "old stone"
- nomads
- people who regularly move from place to place
- Stone Age
- early period of human history, poeple used stone to make tools and weapons
- Bronze Age
- 3000 B.C. to 12000 B.C., people mixed copper and tin in Asia to form bronze
- Neanderthal
- humans that lived during the Paleolithic time
- Jericho
- one of the oldest communities in the middle east, dates back to 8000 B.C.
- Catal Huyuk
- neolothic community that is in present-day turkey, 6700 -5700 B.C., home to about 6000 people
- Cresswell Crags
- limestone gorge honey combed with caves in England
- Neolithic
- New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C. period in which underwent the farming revolution, specialization of jobs and formed villages