Unit 1 test
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- Archeologist
- scientist who studies the life and culture of ancient people by excavating ancient living sites
- Anthropologist
- scientist who studies past humans pre-human civilization
- Paleontologist
- they study of forms of life existing in prehistoric times as represented by fossils
- Prehistory
- history of humankind in the period before recorded history
- Radio Carbon Dating
- a technique to determine age of fossil
- Artifact
- objects shaped by human hands, also remains of human life
- Culture
- the ideas, customs, skills, and arts of a given people at a given time
- Technology
- : the skills and useful knowledge available to them for collecting material and making objects necessary for survival
- Primitive
- earliest or original stage/state
- Civilized
- to raise from primitive, come out of primitive stage/ state
- Primary Source
- a firsthand account of an event
- Secondary Source
- a secondhand account of an even, such as stories passed down.
- Paleolithic
- Old stone age
- mesolithic
- middle stone age
- neolithic
- new stone age
- homo habilis
- pereson with ability
- homo erectus
- person who walks upright
- homo sapiens
- person who thinks
- government
- need for law and order
- economy
- the ways man uses his enviornment to meet his material needs (food, shelter, and clothing)
- religion
- the need for shared beliefs
- family
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need to care for and raise children
+ social standings in society - language. self expression
- need for communication
- nile is in?
- egypt
- yellow is in
- china
- tigris-euphrates is in
- iraq/mesopatamia
- indus is in
- india
- artisan
- a speacilized crafts person
- cultural diffusion
- the exchange of ideas, knowledge, skills, and customs amongst different civilizations
- agricultural surplus
- an excess amount of food
- division of labor
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the different roles a person plays in work
men/women - event
- all inclusive, everything is in it, big, happens once and is gone, no long seen, invisible, caused by many things
- account
- selective, things left out of the account, smaller, can be used in the present, visible, created by someone, shows someones perspective
- what helps in shaping an account
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- ethnocentrism (judging people)
--skills
-talent
-experiences
-point of view--> values
-materials and tools
-knowldge and ideas
-importance
-purpose and use
-time and space - homo habilis...
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- crude stone tools
-limited language
-food gathering and scavenging - homo erectus....
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-hand-axes and other flaked stone tools
-caves used and pits dug
-hand-axes and other flaked stone tools
language
-nomadic bands
-hunting-gathering - 2 types of homo sapiens
- neandrathal and cro-magnon
- neandrathal.....
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-spear points and hide scrapers
-shelters built or caves improved
-skins laced for clothing
-planned burials of dead
-care for handicapped members of community - cro-magnon
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-knives, chisel, spear thrower, bow, and arrow
-bone tools; needle, fish hook, harpoon
-fish nets, canoes
-sewed leather clothing
-sun-hardened pottery
-cooperative big game hunts
-status burials for leaders
-possible magic rituals with cave painting and cared sculpted artifacts - Paleolithic people are
- homo habilis, homo erectus, and homo sapiens (neandrathals and cromagnon)
- Neolithic accomplishments
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-irrigation systems
-specialization of labor
-metalworking technology
-long distance trade-
-planning leadership
- levels of social standing
- invention of writing